@elxgantcaptain continued from [here]
He'd promised Devang to not go through anymore random portals in the middle of nowhere, and he really hadn't this time! This time he'd just stepped through a very official looking gate with some very official looking coordinates, texted to him by a very official drug dealer who'd been hyping up a "tropical paradise you'll NEVER forget" to help make up for the fact that his last shipment had been a little light.
Well? It was tropical alright.
He wasn't sure of the "paradise" part yet. The commotion of canons booming somewhere far off the coast had caught his attention immediately, and he'd been watching since then. Out of the way of the pounding surf and lounging in the shade of a palm tree, arms around his knees and just staring like it was a car crash in slow motion.
He'd never seen a real ship battle before.
But when he saw someone making their way to shore, he scrambled to his feet. Made his way down to where the lucky man had crawled up out of the sea, pack slung over one shoulder and ready to ask--
"Woah! Hey! Okay!" He jumped right back a couple steps, ears swivelling to the sides and patchy fur puffing up a little bit, holding up a hand between them. "I come in peace! 'Er... Me matey!"
The guy looked like a pirate, so have a vaguely Australian cat man try to imitate how he thought one talked! At least for a few words, then he devolved back into his regular pattern of speech.
"Yanno, I'm a doctor. An' I can pretty safely say that yer not s'possed to have wood in ya! At all. Didja know that?"
Which wasn't much better.