Deep blue striking waves pierced at the creaking wood of the soldier's ship. Or perhaps it was the harrowing tentacles of a kraken? Zavis couldn't recall the events, or how his boat was destroyed on his return to the kingdom. Was it a day ago? Four? 

Zavis was a soldier sent to a foreign land thick with suspicion, he had barely begun his journey home when a kraken invaded his path, tearing his ship apart. His body drifted lifelessly until the tide carried him to the shores of an unknown island.