In the middle of the night, linxu wakes up. He's in the fish camp, and ziyu has locked him up. Worried that he'll die, snatches the mouse from his grasp and tells him that he can't. He blames the whole thing on ziyyu, who didn't do his job as a master of the pond and let the fish die. . The fish's blood has spread all over the pond, and he's been pinned to the wall by the cold stone walls of the camp. Aww, it's time for him to die. The old woman tells suck it up and says that she'll take the mouse back to the "sea of fallen dawn" and restore his powers. She says that the only reason she went through all this trouble to save the mouse was because he was a threat to the village. The resistance army is fighting for the cause of the people of the village, and the only way they can save them is if the mouse can get back to his old state. snopes, the old woman says, that's not going to happen.