Syrlya shrugs a shoulder. Nothing they can do about it now, and there's no likely benefit in playing chip swap again. they just have to minimize the allies she can use against them.

Especially if her 'buying time' is to send a bigger force against them, if not march down herself (and even then, nothing stops her from turning these four against them anyway to put down the insurgence). "Try to avoid getting her attention personally. I need to see about something."

He steps back, and then phases out of sight as he pulls his magic together for an invisibility veil. Without any departing words he turns to go--he needs to find Shimmer without the Mother of Invention catching on and getting a look at her.