Jenwuf
The Core-AI heard it all too well. They turned to the general direction of where the blue portal came from, and listened.
"Well, it's good to know your Slave-AI know not to actually TOUCH the trees, Reflex-Jacket."
"I've heard the reports, but... There hasn't been a report of such a psionic signature... a dimensional anomaly such as this... It's anhysbys, but it's... it's like.."
"...AN ELDER!?"
"Great, how many Rift-daemons have to have an influ--"
"As far as I know, they are not Rift-Daemons.. just beings within a heightened reality anchored to the 3rd layer. A layer the Tau have just discovered and therefore brought them here."
"A very rough history, too."
"...The Empress is safe - for now - and we are being recalled. We must leave the area and prepare to battle... who was the entity that tried to take control?"
"...Ixornvas."
"Right. Let's take the fight to his lackeys."
Drakador_Chaos
Effervescent-Blade and Reflex-Jacket teleport out of the Empress' chambers, but Wing-Pandora stays for a moment. She hovers over to to unconscious body and leans to the feather.
"Keep this one safe, we will attempt to locate and subvert the other three, taking them to the borders of the old cult to undergo... whatever you just did. And we'll send your message to Galvanic-Aether."