K'pandolu nodded at Jaune, not convinced but willing to let it slide for now. If they were lucky, they might avoid a fight… But Kalki seemed set in her ways.

She shook her head, eyes narrowed. "So this was your desire," she said, and pursed her lips. "What you saw- it convinced you of this, did it not? A vision, perhaps, of calamity unfolding- mayhap even Calamity upon Calamity. To allow such to overtake you, and then take over it from within- if makes a kind of sense. But this- I can only think such power would warp whoever tried to hold it, and that… is no kind of life at all." Nael van Darnus, and all that had happened there. "Our answers may not satisfy you- but we must try."

Her eyes widened as she saw Cloud's movements, and she started forward, ready to support him as best she could.