The kraken shook off the stun and lunged again, angrier. Mira counted silently in her head: Twenty-two, twenty-three… Her crew looked to her, terrified.
That night, her first mate asked, “Why didn’t you just hit it twice in a row?” navarch of the seas cooldown 30 seconds
Mira exhaled. Thirty seconds. That was the cooldown. She couldn’t just blast the creature — the first Command would only stun it. The real danger was the gap between pulses, when the kraken would recover and strike. The kraken shook off the stun and lunged again, angrier