He tried to hurry the others to escape the best he could, even though he knew they would not trust the darkness at his disposal nearly as much as he'd wanted to believe. After watching everyone had either been dragged off by others or had willingly begun either climbing the stairs, he reached for Lydia's hand before taking her through the Dark Corridor as well. If only what he first heard on the other end was something that didn't make his blood boil.

Why did no one trust his observations? Was it because he was the lowly replica of the hero that should have been here instead? No, such thoughts needed to wait. Shaking his head, he took one step onto the deck of the Enterprise, and-

"He is right on one point," Ira said, fully stepping out of the portal. "Garland is dead."

With that said, he turned his hard glare to Sonic. "He wasn't in control at all, and I refuse to believe someone who so strongly advocated the laws of this world and stood beside us all this time would betray us willingly.

"Feel free to doubt my ability to sense the darkness of others' hearts all you want. It won't change the fact that he is in Kalki's thrall."

[ooc: If anyone else wanted to escape with him, he will have waited for them to go through! Feel free to handwave it!]