It was another few hours before the survivors of the devastation in Laketown reached the shore once more. Many of them were badly wounded or dying, and others still had already been lost to their wounds or shock. Bard's two girls immediately left the little boat they had travelled in with Mel, Saeril, Kili, Fili and Bofur and began weaving through the crowd searching for their brother and father and calling out to them. Mel, who could see a little better over the other people's heads, searched too, though there was no sign of either Bard or Bain to be had. She exchanged a worried glance with Saeril.