Elias accepted the emergency task before he could think himself out of it.
Pain pressed behind his eyes, sharp enough to make the room tilt. The broken panel finished assembling in his sight, but Elias forced himself to read it as information, not a command.
The warning narrowed itself into three demands before Elias could blink them away. A Rhino shard user stood between them and the missing child. The child carried the teleportation shard. Elias had to survive long enough for either fact to matter. That last part felt insulting until the floor shifted under his boots and Yui caught him by the collar.
"Elias, answer me with real words because your face just went white and I am holding a conversation alone."
Elias blinked until the hallway returned to normal color.
"Call Elara back right now, because the thing that hit me before is connected to this, and the warning named a Rhino Ikona with heavy impact."
Yui kept hold of him. "You got all that from the shard at once?"
