despite the fact that the deepshriek escaped with two of its heads , despite the fact that the netherlings ' commander , a rather massive woman with sword to match escaped , despite the fact that we are currently becalmed with one day left until the man sent to pick us up from the middle of the sea decides we 're dead and leaves and we really die shortly after and our corpses rot in the noonday sun as gulls form polite conversation over whether my eyeballs or my stones are the more tasty part of me ... one moment , i 'm not quite sure where i intended to go with that statement .