The labcoat lady gets healed, but (of course) her pride doesn't recover.

Unless unicorns are particularly good at healing shattered pride.


"After seeing he was taken care of, I had to run back this way because I couldn't see what was going on here from there." But, excuses excuses. He should've anticipated that the best place to attack would have been back here. What's the point of being a paladin if you can't do that?

Because of the shouting, some of the people wake up and - after figuring out what's going on and that this isn't a trick or a trap, wake up the others with them. They probably get their chains unlocked, too, by the obedient drivers (who have seen what happened to all the clearly-more-powerful-people who were around).

One of the mermaids peeks out from the marine-wildlife-transport-pool that she's in. She looks very similar to her sister, except still a young teenager, and also is wearing what looks like fancy ceremonial clothes. "H-hi," she says. "Um. That's me."