How I Met My Mates
Dominic rumbled, his deep baritone cutting through the low hum of the bridge instruments.
"Three battle-cruisers are holding a defensive perimeter five miles out," Asher replied without looking up from his interface pad. His gold-tinted hair was tied back loosely, a few stray curls falling into his eyes as he pulled up the sonar feed. "We've deployed sixty deep-sea reconnaissance drones, but the moment they hit the thousand-meter mark, the water density changes. It’s not salt water down there anymore, Dominic. The ambient magic density is so thick it’s crushing the alloy hulls of our probes like aluminum cans."
"Then probes won't work," I said softly, my voice carrying that quiet, layered do