There's some relief when Ignatius moves to reunite himself, but just a little. Once combined, would that sympathetic part of him still play a major part in his decision-making...? There's no time to agonize over that, nor does Rita even get to watch them rejoin, as danger looms, and she whirls around to face it.

"Give us your word, Ignatius!" she calls to the fae as she conjures a mass of water in the shape of a large hand and swings it at their humanoid pursuers. Some are quick enough to evade, but one gets slapped hard enough to be thrown off his feet, out into the street, and sent crashing into an overturned food stall. "Promise that if we return the Heart, you'll use your power to protect us from this. And that anyone who enters a contract with you today will be released and returned to the Ringmaster once the danger has passed!"

She needs to hear it from him. All of him. And those of them who have some way of getting the Heart probably need to hear it, too.

The water-hand manages to grab a second hunter around the waist, where it clenches tightly and freezes, partially trapping him. He smacks his weapon against it to try and chip away the ice, but is rendered vulnerable in the meantime.