[Barabas can't hold it against the man at all, so he only offers a faint smile in return.]

There might not be much of one. Sometimes there isn't.

[Barabas is quite certain Maes is a man who knows that too well.] But facts. We're still here. Most of us at least have made it back physically intact. Some of the merfolk landed with us. So no we have to do the best we can for them, and we learn what we can so this doesn't happen again.

[If they can do anything to stop it when the situation arises.]