#...but for everyone at the Halidom it would've been pure terror and panic!

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You know, one idea I am very much tempted to write a one-shot right now for Dragalia would be the sheer angst back at the Halidom during the Stranded Scions event.

Like. Euden never looks for or is worried about any of his friends, he's there alone with just Chelle, Leonidas, and ultimately Emile. He probably received his invitation alone by Chelle, since luxury things have a strict headcount. He probably wanted to stay at the Halidom, but I'm sure at that point his friends would've been pushing him to take a break from it all for a while, he's earned it-...

...and then words gets back that the ship was sunk by a rogue storm no one saw coming, fates of all royalty aboard unknown. Heck, make it even worse, if someone saw Euden thrown overboard as he recalled here:

Yes, he can fly or swim as a dragon, but only for a certain amount of time. And if he was injured or knocked unconscious at the wrong moment, -which seemingly happened, based on the gap in his consciousness in his narration of the event, -that advantage would've gone right out the window. And taking a tumble from that high would not help the odds of either not occurring as water makes not quite as kind a landing you might believe.

So all they know at best is likely: Euden and some his family was on the ship that sunk. Whatever the general casualty situation of the event since it's never specified, nobody's found their bodies....nor them alive. But they were in the sea in a storm ferocious enough to sink a luxury, state of the art ship.

Can't imagine the panic and guilt when that got back. The frantic efforts to grapple with the idea there's a very good chance Euden is dead with three of his siblings, and their fledgling country now has to try and figure out who can replace him if he's not rescued and soon. The idea that since Emile was a last-minute add-on to the ship, the Dyrenell Empire which was just starting to get stabilized into a more respectable land, is going to be thrown right back into the chaotic power vacuum that lead to Emile's ascent. Leonidas and Chelle, too, as major players in their own rights. That's two (technically three, since Gala Leonidas seems to indicate he's declared his lands 'Alberia' and is thus a ruler of a country in his own right) sovereigns dead, all from the great powers of South Grastea.

The similarly frantic attempts to start organizing searches for Euden and co and all the hope and fear that comes with it as the days drag on without a body. Fear that he survived, but didn't have the resources or know-how to survive on an abandoned island or makeshift raft or wherever he ended up.

As tempting as it is to write, I've a bit too much fic to work on right now since I'm behind on quite a few things!

As a last side note, though, can I just add an oof for Euden since even he's acknowledged he gets no relaxation at any time even when he's trying to? 'First time in a long time' is a small phrase with so much weight when what he is getting for the first time in a while is a 'few peaceful hours'. And then he thinks 'thanks' and immediately summons a storm.