Awesome / Tress of the Emerald Sea

• Tress' escape from the island. Rather than hiding in a barrel, she steals the inspector's coat and uses the excuse of "finding" a stowaway to get on a ship headed towards the King's Island.
  • When Tress is struggling to come up with a plan her father goes to the local tavern and reminds the regulars of every favor he's ever done for them. He doesn't explicitly ask them to help, but everyone realises that if Lem is finally calling in the many favors he's owed then he must be doing it for something important.
• Tress walks across the sea of deadly spores during a brief calm in the sea in order to escape the smugglers. This is one of the things that later convinces the pirates that she must be more than she says.
• Credit where it's due: Captain Crow responds to a man pointing a gun at her by shooting herself in the head.
• Tress saves the ship from rain in the Crimson by using a barrel of Verdant spores to grow a tree and lift the whole ship out of the way.
• Crow tries to sell Tress to the dragon. Tress turns it around by selling Crow to the dragon. He's just so impressed by her audacity that he lets her argue her case. And ultimately she gets away with it because she convinces him that she'd never stop trying to escape and would be more trouble than she's worth.
• Hoid finally becoming an Elantrian and easily countering Riina's curse with an AonDor ward. While wearing a flowered shirt, short shorts, and socks with sandals.