Still, seeing the bedraggled bodies being dragged out of the reservoir had elicited more sympathy than fright.  It was true that they were large—maybe even as tall as a minotaur—but their slender build reminded her more of the half-starved animals Fluttershy nursed back to health than a potential predator.  While she knew that the creatures might be more intimidating when they weren’t half-dead, for now she only had her initial impression to go on.  Commander Ironhoof’s final briefing—before he called off the rescue operation—indicated that both creatures were at the hospital, in stable but serious condition.