Exhausted and still wearing dramatically flowing Greek ritual robes, the three ladies attempt to go home to their hotel room to rest, but as they drive down the highway along the coast, Helena hears screams coming from the beach not too far away. The girls are tired but not about to pass by someone in need, so they pull over and run over to see what's happening, and discover a giant silver man menacing some beach-goers; two young women are being captured by a giant waterspout that is pulling them toward the sea, while the man is shooting arrows at the young men trying to help them. Helena recognizes that the man appears to be modeled after the mythological Orion, and suspects he might have something to do with Aldonza and her cult to Artemis, probably as an adjunct to the Colossus who is corrupting the religion. Clearly, they can't let people be injured or kidnapped, and they certainly can't pass by a marauding Colossus assistant, so Helena explains the situation to her companions and Issy leaps into action, straining to pull the screaming women out of the waterspout that is trying to kidnap them. Valencia marches onto the scene and demands to know what the hunter thinks he's doing, and he's so impressed and confused by her majestic presence that he pauses in his attack to explain that he wants the women to come with him and is killing their escorts to make sure they don't argue. Issy successfully manages to free the two women and get them running to safety, but gets captured, along with Djimy, by the waterspout herself, and the hunter cheerfully agrees that he'll take her and Valencia instead, since his original victims have escaped. Helena, displeased by the hunter's cavalier evil, calls out to the local sea wildlife to help them and successfully calls up a small pod of dolphins to help them, but the dolphins are confused about what exactly they're supposed to do and attack Issy and Valencia on and off as well as taking shots at the hunter. Valencia is deeply unimpressed by the hunter's nonchalant explanation that he kidnaps women for "romance", and while Issy extricates herself and Helena tries to surreptitiously remove the injured young men away from the danger zone, she begins giving him a much-needed lecture about consent, autonomy, and how it is not ever okay to just kidnap people and shoot their loved ones. The hunter is swayed by Valencia's powerful rhetoric and undeniable charisma, but is confused due to a severe lack of compassion, and has trouble understanding concepts like women having the right not to want to sleep with him and that he should accept the fact that sometimes he can't have what he wants. Valencia walks him through some basics about how to approach people and talk to them in a respectful manner, but when he continues not to get it and seems likely to keep murdering people, Issy decides they've spent enough time on education and jumps him, beating in his knees and the back of his head with the help of the dolphins until she manages to knock him out. She suggests that if the lesson didn't sink in before, it might now. Reasoning that they can't very well leave a silver giant lying on the shoreline where the police they called for the dying young men can find and get hurt by it, the girls then loot his silver bow (to make sure he doesn't use it against any more innocents, officially, and also because Helena can tell it's magical and can't resist investigating it) and roll him into the ocean he came from, hoping he'll wake up at home and rethink his life choices. It's been a long night, but as the three ladies head once more toward their hotel, Helena reads terrible omens and horrors in the wind, and tells her friends in sudden terror that she sees a warning of death in the near future... and it tells her they need to get back to the Everglades and find the spirit of the swamp as soon as possible.
