[ Matt was having a shockingly nice time, given the givens. Which means he should probably have seen this coming.
It started with your classic horror movie did you hear that? Then the realization that by that, Matt really meant those screams. And, well, a Shard-Bearer's work is never done. Matt bid Sebastian a hasty adieu and ran off.
Zombies are a known thing on Matt's world, but they have more to do with enslavement of the living through preternatural means than reanimation of the dead. And they definitely don't try to eat people (unless they're told to, he guesses??). So it takes him a little while to figure out what's going on: insensible cannibals staggering around the ship, sinking their teeth into everyone in reach.
He did promise Link he'd try to be defensive in a combat scenario. So his first move is to ward off the first occupied cabin he comes across. ]
You'll be safe if you stay put, [ he says to the stunned occupants, as a gleaming filigree shield fills the doorway. ] No matter what you hear, don't come out!
[ At this point, he's forgotten the cool remove he'd nourished just hours before. "No worries, it's all just a dream." Maybe the other passengers aren't real, or in real danger, but the bloody corpses he's encountered certainly look like they've experienced dire consequences.
So he's feeling some heightened urgency. He probably shouldn't be taking these corners so fast, though. ]
they are night zombies!! they are neighbors!! they have come back from the dead!! ahhhh!
It started with your classic horror movie did you hear that? Then the realization that by that, Matt really meant those screams. And, well, a Shard-Bearer's work is never done. Matt bid Sebastian a hasty adieu and ran off.
Zombies are a known thing on Matt's world, but they have more to do with enslavement of the living through preternatural means than reanimation of the dead. And they definitely don't try to eat people (unless they're told to, he guesses??). So it takes him a little while to figure out what's going on: insensible cannibals staggering around the ship, sinking their teeth into everyone in reach.
He did promise Link he'd try to be defensive in a combat scenario. So his first move is to ward off the first occupied cabin he comes across. ]
You'll be safe if you stay put, [ he says to the stunned occupants, as a gleaming filigree shield fills the doorway. ] No matter what you hear, don't come out!
[ At this point, he's forgotten the cool remove he'd nourished just hours before. "No worries, it's all just a dream." Maybe the other passengers aren't real, or in real danger, but the bloody corpses he's encountered certainly look like they've experienced dire consequences.
So he's feeling some heightened urgency. He probably shouldn't be taking these corners so fast, though. ]