While Joyce and Damien were having a heart-to-heart conversation with one another, Ariel was thinking of how to talk to her parents without making it sound as though she had just narrowly escaped death.
She had teleported at the border of Wyverndale, where her parents and her aunt were sitting on the porch of an abandoned house and were enjoying their time having a wonderful conversation.
"Oh, my baby!" Adeline instantly ran to give a tight hug to her daughter because it had been a few days since she last saw Ariel.
Theodore and Irene, on the other hand, were exchanging a confused glance with each other because it hadn't been that long since the two of them left her.
Ariel then looked at her mother and asked, "Why are all of you– Ah!" She suddenly recalled why they were sitting down just outside of Wyverndale, "The barrier!"
