As Ignatius leaps to confront the Mother, Eruka blanches.

“Is he trying to get us all killed?!” Only Tyki can really hear her on account of being close by, and she turns to him with naked fear in her expression. She’s sensitive enough to magic to feel that there’s a lot of it in the air right now, like the static potential in the air before a storm.

“Why is he fighting her? We should just go.”