"You're welcome." Daine sits down on the sand, Coromotto flopping beside her. "And I bargained with it," she adds flatly. She doesn't want to think about it too hard. It hadn't been fair - it hadn't let her be fair - and now she feels as if she needs a bath for reasons that have nothing to do with her soaking in the ocean.

As Coromotto stretches his head to sniff in the general direction of Johnny's rabbit, Daine turns her focus to the woman. "It was a nasty piece of work," she says with a pensive - and rather impressed - frown. "Have you fought things like it before?"