“Has Jafar grown so lazy in his greatness that he can’t even retrieve his own staff?” he muttered as he went down the ladder into the hold.
By the time he returned to the deck with his magical weapon, the enemy ships were coming closer into view. “I’m not sure what limits of distance Achmet placed on the staff’s powers,” he admitted to his companions.
“I would ask you to wait until the ships were within hailing distance, anyway,” Umar said.
“If you can devastate the enemy from far away, it is only foolish to wait until they get so close,” said El-Hadar.
“These are still men, creations of Oromasd,” Umar replied. “They serve the cause of Rimahn because they were terrorized into it by Aeshma, but we at least owe them the chance to surrender and so spare their lives.”
“El-Hadar knew there
