C170 You and I Joined Hands
Ning Que's lack of self-control in his moment of desperation inadvertently saved the woman's life. Had the Thunderwhale managed to swallow her, the outcome would have been too dreadful to contemplate.
"Is that you? I remember you," came the Thunderwhale's raspy, aged voice, thick with anger. Its almost-captured prey had been startled away, leaving it understandably irate.
"Sorry about that