He listened to her entire explanation, before simply vanishing from holding her, and reappearing across the room, with his chest armor active. Apparently his wives didn't QUITE understand Barid like he did, which made most of them a liability. Which was NOT within his expectations. Ama had been near him for nearly three hundred years, and barely knew the man. "Actually, no one will do anything to the shields without my expressed permission, or I will annihilate their souls. That shield is all that is between the beyonders and the multi-planar-verse, and bringing it down will mean we are fighting the beyonders everywhere. THAT was why I committed the Shadow Stalkers to the outer planes, to keep the Beyonders from trying to find a way around the obvious entrances.<br/><br/>Honestly, it was my fault they figured out what was happening to their units in the outer planes in the first place. They were getting nothing through them, and until I sallied out, they believed they were winning through that method. Then my constructs pushed out, got some data on them, and fell back, and they realized their units were completely ineffective here. The gods had been right, but for all the wrong reasons.<br/><br/>They are ADAPTING Ama, and right now they are again bashing their heads against an unbreakable wall, without realizing it."