"That's part of what I'm trying to figure out. Normally, a ritual as massive and delicate as this, disrupted to the degree you managed, would have either failed entirely, or gone completely, unstably, out of control. This is... unusual. As if something were acting on it, to keep it stable. But, it's not any of us," she said, referring to the gods. "And I don't<em>sense</em>any outside forces."