Falls River
Flash to elsewhere in a different world:
A powerful wizard, at the peak of mortal power has put together a ritual. With wild eyes, his long beard wagging in the wind as a storm plays in the background, the wizard looks to his hunchbacked assistant. "At last, Igor! I have done it! I have enhanced the wish spell! After battling exarchs to find the hidden knowledge, and braving the cursed realm of the ninth hell to get the right components, I have finally done it!"
He speaks ominous phrases and the storm gets wilder! With one final phrase, the ritual kicks off and glows brightly, its symbols standing up and facing the wizard before shooting lasers at him! He laughs maniacally until the ritual finally finishes. The storm subsides.
Igor stands waiting. What will master wish for? The wizard, electricity dancing all over him, eyes glowing, mumbles the words of the wish spell and says, "I wish to be able to cast prestidigitation at-will!"
Igor's eyes go wide! What kind of blasphemy was this?! A god's face began to form from the clouds with anger in its eyes...
Back to Falls River:
Bridget says, "We're not too far from town. We can take them back and dry them off there."
Maybe the epic thing Bridget can get from Jengus will be... prestidigitation! Nah. Too powerful. With that, Bridget could dry people off or something!
Fast forward!
The team makes it back to town without issue and the people of the town see them returning with the missing people! Very shortly, the town doctor tends to them and the concerned families of the missing persons come to the doctor's office to coddle their loved ones.