It was also Octavia's first instinct to try and jerk her arm out of the mermaid's grip, because she'd been grabbed by many people who were stronger than her before and it rarely ended well. And Fandom hadn't exactly taught her to trust the supernatural.

But then that just... went away.

Octavia blinked a few times. Then the sudden fog in her thought process seemed to clear.

"We really need to go."