Annotated 46-8
Hammerhead may have contempt for “words,” but he can use them pretty well himself when he wants to.
A tense standoff was our only real option here. A solo Penk-Hammerhead fight now would’ve stolen focus from the Penk-Harky fight later; a fight between Hammerhead and other members of the combined teams would’ve felt too much like a replay of Chapter 35; and a simple, anticlimactic resolution (twenty-five-foot-deep sinkhole, Potion of Shark Repellent) would’ve nerfed Hammerhead. So, a bit like Hammerhead himself, we had to rely more on suggestion than action at this point.
FB: PENK: I don’t know if I… GET land shark humor.
HAMMERHEAD: You don’t have to. IT will “get” YOU.
PENK: …Ha ha?
HAMMERHEAD: [ominous silence]
Man, that chuckled “once” is ominous. I wonder if Harky ever considered that after humans were dealt with the landsharks would immediately turn on the alliance.
Also he sort of proved Penk right here by allowing himself to be deterred from violence and “prey” with words.
That or he’s just not hungry at the moment.
Could well be, that one side never stopped…
War means casualties. Who can keep track of everyone on or beyond the battlefields…
Add in that land sharks are shown occasionally eating each other and yeah I can totally believe that occasionally members of the alliance sometimes “disappear”, especially on battlefields where a frenzy might start happening