The inn he'd been in, only hours before, looks as if it had been knocked over by the blastwave of a nuclear weapon. He can see the foundation of it, ten feet away from the almost perfectly neat pile of rubble, underneath which Kat is buried. Nothing else in the city even looks damaged, but there's a sudden explosion from the palace, echoing all the way over to here.<br/><br/>"Rising Phoenix Stance!" The rubble around Kat rumbles, and she and the shield surrounding her surge into the air, lifted by her own innate powers. "Draiss! What just happened? I heard some kind of shouting, then... everything exploded!"<br/><br/>He can sense the source of the destruction; a divine spark, its trail still echoing in the air, leading over to the palace.