Excellent! It shall do that, then. And open the door and—is the victim, like, conscious and motile. Also is the monster big enough to pick them up if the answer is no.

The victim is conscious and only slightly scratched up! The monster is several times their size but might have a hard time locomoting with a limb dedicated to carrying a person.

Okay, she will attempt to have the monster lead the victim to safety. If the victim looks disinclined to follow then she’ll try to have it scratch “I am being controlled by an esper” into some dirt or something.

The victim escapes the cage at the first opportunity but doesn't want to stay near the monster. Actually he's making a beeline for the cotton candy stand.

That’s so valid of him. He can have some cotton candy before she uses the monster to gently herd him entrancewards.

He grabs some of it and then - well, herding is the right word, he's trying to stay out of claw range.

Yeah, she figured. As long as she can reasonably consistently get him fleeing the monster in the direction of the entrance, it’s all good.

Well, he's trying going up a staircase that looks too narrow for the beast, and it doesn't look like he's as stable in so doing as Haru is, but maybe he'll be fine!

—Is there another monster nearby that she can use to dissuade him from doing that. A flier, maybe, or just something smaller.

There's lots of weird Seussian birds, flapping hither and yon on their objectively underfeathered little wings. They're decorative and don't attack, so people don't bother shooting them.

But will the guy she is attempting to rescue run away from one.

Yes, but, like not toward the big beastie, so, farther up the stairs.

Sigh. This is objectively not an efficient use of her power. She updates the rescue teams on his not-cage location and looks for another not-oobleck person she can dislodge.

The train turns out to be a monster. She can make it follow whichever part of the track she likes and come to a stop so the lady can get off.

Oh maaaaan that is so cool. She lets the lady off at the best spot for heading to the entrance, but before she does that she is going to make some Harmless Birds peck an arrow into the ground with the label “this way to rescue.”

Haru's back with the core. "Lucy you are brilliant and also there were so many sneetches can we take a break."

“We absolutely can.” Smooch. She does also update the rescue teams on Train Lady’s situation before they leave, though.

He takes her hand and they can jump through the portal and go hide in a tent.

Lucy had some idea of how much backlash Haru was going to accrue, and was freer with how much exactly she was controlling some of those monsters accordingly. She’s so helpful! Among other adjectives.

Then they can have lovely mutual guiding till they're both at safely low levels and he's ready to climb back in and retrieve victims.

Excellent! Hopefully cage guy does not need significantly more rescuing than when she last saw him, such as perhaps because he fell off of some stairs.

“We’re gonna kill a named dungeon,” she trills delightedly on the way back in.

"There's named and then there's named, but we're gonna kill a famous one!"

“I am so hyped, this is fabulous. Pity we probably can’t get the train out.”

"The train?"

“There’s a train that’s a monster! I made it let a kidnapping victim go. But it runs on tracks and it’s, you know, train amounts of heavy, so it’d be a bitch and a half to even get to the entrance.”