Atlantis Deck
Waves rocked the metal shore and scratched a sound across the water. Or maybe it was the other way around, the metal shore stood like a rock in the water scratching the unblemished surface until it hollowed out a place there. A big, creaky, old, in defiance of the laws of the universe rock way better than all five rocky movies...

After a cursory check around to verify this really was the protrusive... dock... thing you were supposed to meet at it was on to checking your standard issue watch. Just so you could watch your timing. You might have kept careful watch instead (no telling what earth conquering dolphin might walk on two fins) but that would have stopped the very pointed gestures of worry and displeasure. Just so the people who arrived one by one all knew how deplorable it was to stand out on a big cold metal pier getting soaked by waves... and watchful intentions.

...wrathful intentions?