"What the hell are you--" is as far as Rita gets in protesting before Yuya takes the brunt of the attack for her.

She holds on to him as they fall, spreading her wings to try and slow them down, but it does little. They crash into the vines growing around the Mother's feet but by some stroke of luck, rather than getting raked through the crystal thorns the whole way down, they end up tumbling right on top of Lambert's fallen dragon-body. There's a sickening crack at some point, and at the end of it, Rita's lying still, conscious but wincing in pain with one arm still wrapped around Yuya and one of her wings bent in a direction it's not supposed to bend in.