Moments earlier.
Akurra, one of the five beastly serpents of Solaris, assumed it was just another day lying in the pit of darkness under the undying waters.
There was nothing to do but swim, eat large fishes, and at night, curse at his father, staring at the moon. He had a boring two hundred plus years. He had nothing to do but get fat.
He suddenly heard a commotion from above the waters. Mermaids were shrieking. How he hated their screams.
The serpent detected the blood of the mermaids and saw flashes of light from hundreds of meters above him.
He decided to see what was happening, but as he swam up, he scented a familiar whiff; a blood of a white witch from the moon.
He suddenly felt a thrill.
'What would a moon witch be doing here?' He asked himself. As the scent filled his nostrils, he sped his swimming. He saw four men in a frame of a human hastily evade him.
