Don't worry, a lot of people were puzzled about what was going on. Before your absence, we were all working with the assumption that the woman was trying to abduct Alyssa, our lovely doe druid. However that wasn't the case. They were trying to stop someone from escaping the gathering. Some kind of hooded being. He escaped via means of a smoke screen and the distraction of the execution. After which all the demi-humans were escorted to the palace to meet with several people in the courts to be assigned to a task.