The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

What?! But... we have to help those poor souls!

"That's exactly it, Alex. There are potentially good people lost out there, who knows how many may have been eaten, or trapped?
That's pretty much our job. Heaven wants us to help them.
More importantly, Heaven wants us to find out where in Realm they're appearing from.
They can't all just be appearing in the sea, right? After all, you appeared in the forest."

That is true. So, once we rescue them, then what? They're barely living.

"Uh, Heaven said we should take them to it. Then it will take care of them, I guess?"

Oh. You think you know what Heaven will do with them... You'd rather not tell Mermaid.
Still, Heaven knows best, you guess.
So, Mermaid, what's our plan?

"Well, I figure we'll go from town to town, see if the locals know anything, so on.
We can cross Topia off the list of towns we'll be searching, as it's not really connected to the sea.
So, um... it's gonna be a long trip... is there anything you want to do in Topia before we leave?"