The party and the Krikkit warship looked like, in their writhings, a bit like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, while the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doenst feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck to be made by this first duck anyways, and certainly not while it, the second duck, is busy flying