Herbert, meanwhile, is still up on the ground fielding questions and advice and honestly still not super sure how to proceed. Lapis can apparently control water, so possibly she's fighting the thing? Without any evidence of it aside from vague, occasional water blorping?

He......makes a sword. Pulls it out of his bag. It's orange-red, and has a sheen because making like, some kind of hot oil sword is his best idea for dealing with water. If he even has to. Everyone seems pretty certain that Lapis has it handled.