As the two spells begin to trigger, the impossible energies beginning to flood the room, time slowly, very, very slowly, grinds... to... a...<br/><br/>Halt.<br/><br/>Corruption detected. System malfunction. Core processors at critical levels. Excess energy being vented.<br/><br/>Time catches up with itself very, very quickly, again, as Draiss finds himself, rather forcefully, ejected from the Cave. When he finally catches up with himself, he'll find that he's now in the Plane of Shadow, one of the many elemental demiplanes, with no sign of Verdelet, or that he'd recently been in battle, aside from some rather blasted-looking terrain around him.