Somewhere in all that chaos, a trigger was about to be squeezed which would send a small, spinning projectile of metal in the same direction - and whose owner was blinded at the last moment by a sudden bright FLASH of light. Shimmer might find it difficult to change under ordinary circumstances, but a sudden fright would do it and Italian curses turned the air blue - before they swiftly changed to reverence.
Wait, why were they calling her Mary? And a virgin? And crossing themselves...?
Oh!
And the delivery girl floated directly in front of her vampiric comrade in postal arms, deciding to make like a proverbial C3-PO in front of a village of Ewoks.
"Lo! Deliver unto me, my children! Repent your evil ways!"