Listening to the words coming from the brass box, Daniel clenched his hands and crushed the device into fragments. Staring at the white light's growing intensity, he hurriedly grabbed a life raft hanging on the ship's edge, tossed it onto the deck and pulled both siblings toward it. 0

"Remember! Survive! Don't seek revenge for me!" Daniel commanded before spitting out seven or eight red stones mixed with blood onto the raft.0

Before a tearful Margaret could respond, Daniel's muscles tensed up, and he hurled the lightweight raft like a paper airplane, flinging it far into the sea.0

Daniel didn't wait for the raft to hit the water. He turned toward the control tower and roared, "Charge! For Cavendish!"0

With a blare of the ship's horn, the flaps over all the gun ports on the three remaining Royal Titans opened. The warships advanced toward the spider up ahead with its propellers...0