She waited until the kraken’s tentacle wrapped around her own bowsprit. Then — boom — Command #1: The creature flinched, releasing the ship. “Now row!” she shouted to her crew. They put 15 seconds of distance between themselves and the beast.
Patience between pulses is what turns a blast into a rescue.
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.