Okay, okay, singing her energy back up and then - which first.  Probably it's worth it to take the time to decide...  She sings to figure out the location of the humans she left in the storm, and there are that many living ones in that direction, which is at the surface, and that's how many there are supposed to be, so they aren't in that much trouble.  She'll be unhappy if she has to revive another one but as long as none of them are dead now it's probably basically fine to keep her focus here.  Even though the other ones probably think she's abandoned them and are scared by that...

Nothing for it.  Hm, she could start right away, but she thinks it'll go faster overall if - she pats the edge of the small ship near the dead one several times, then dips back under the water to say, "Your highness?", and pat-pat-pats the edge again.

...sure.

"Sir, what are you doing with the prince -"

"She brought him here in the first place and he doesn't have a pulse, I'm seeing if she can do anything else for him."

Oh, good.  She positions him where she wants him, which is draped over the side so that she can see him and so any water that falls out of him will not be in the ship, but where hopefully no more water will get into him.

And she sings, for - really quite a while.  At least it feels like it.  It's probably only three or four song-lengths.

(She'll come back to fix his bones after she's fetched the others; for now he just needs to stop being dead -)

"- hruk," he says, sort of, and then he's coughing and moaning.

Okay!!!  Now she would like the other end of the rope, please.

Okay??

Yes good.  Energy up, up, up, and then - back for the rest of the humans.  Most of the way she isn't even really swimming; she's forcing herself in that direction with magic directly, holding her arms straight against herself to reduce drag.  She aims low and then swims up, to avoid hitting them with anything.  How are they doing??  Are there any new problems for her, here?

Most of them are managing to cling to life, more or less, and also the floatable things they have on hand, but they are various amounts and kinds of injured and waterlogged.

Could be worse.  She brings the rope around to each of them and makes sure that they're holding on to it while she tries to come up with better ideas for how to transport them.

It is apparently not trivial for injured waterlogged humans to cling to a rope while also clinging to a flotation device but they do their best.

...Fine, now that they're all connected to each other, she'll spend a verse or three looking for better float stuff?  Especially if there's one big float thing she can put all or most of them on.

The big part's on fire! Everything else is pretty little chunks.

FINE she will just go REALLY SLOWLY so as to not DRAG THEM ALL UNDERWATER.  Ughhhhhhhh this is boring and they keep falling off the rope and bumping into each other and then she has to re-attach them, and, well it's not as if she's using her voice for speed, so she might as well use it to fix their injuries as she basically drifts along.

A bit of a ragged cheer strikes up when it's clear she's doing that.

Awww, okay, they're really cute actually and things are basically fine.  Even if she has to go really slowly.  She'll take them to the little ship and then she'll heal the ex-dead guy and everyone else, and then take them all to shore - she'll be able to bring the small ship back to get these humans, once she has somewhere else to put those ones, and - really she did very well here.

She runs out of injuries before she runs out of distance, but, yeah, she's getting really exhausted, so there's still something to sing about.

Once she runs out of injuries "your highness" is very interested in the proceedings.

Actually she does get kind of bored after a while, and takes a break from pulling to give the humans a chance to demonstrate some sort of gratefulness or relief or whatever other communication.  For her morale.

Does this facial expression count?

Oh!  She has teeth too.  She was trying to hide them earlier because sometimes it made the humans get wrigglier when she didn't, but maybe in this context it's fine?

Wow shark teeth. But she had lots of chances to eat someone and didn't.

She wants to see if he'd touch his hand to hers if she raised it, but her skin is so much rougher than any of theirs, so - she doesn't.

"Are we going the right way?"

"I don't know. Maybe she at least knows we want land to be on."

Okay, that was at least - maybe a lateral shift in morale, overall; she'll continue.

She takes the trip as sort of a relay with herself, dragging the boat a distance and then going back for the individuals.

Eventually she can see land, and a ways after that it seems like the humans can too, based on their reactions.  And a while after that, she hears - the voices of other merfolk.  Her family.

She gathers all the humans together and... waves.  Points to herself and back in the direction they came from and to herself and back in the direction they came from.