Inric turns away from them, his face twisting in anger and distress as he vanishes. The air shivers and swirls in his wake. "That is nearly as weird to watch as it was to experience," Mathea says. "Mum..." Ylva says as they made their way out of the waterfall glen, "what's going to happen? To Magistra Colle? And to - to Arvid?" "Don't worry about it," Mathea says, feeling like a fraud even as the words come out of her mouth. "Magistra Colle is a famous Sage. They'll look after her. And as for Arvid, knowing him, he'll work something out. He'll be fine, you'll see." But she wonders, after all that, just who she's trying to convince.