As the crow plummeted from the sky, Sydon leapt off of its back, landing a moment after it hit the ground... though he nearly fell, as the impact coincided with an enormous tremor that seemed to radiate out from the bird's corpse. The entire region seemed to shade and tremble, as the very sky above split and cracked. The clearing around them, and the stone pillar at its heart, collapsed inward on themselves - where once it was nearly a mile across, now it was only a few hundred feet, and the spike of stone stood at less than half its size. Above them, the sun suddenly burst into the sky, the eternal twilight being replaced by mid-afternoon. The unending screams and cries of the realm, which had become a backdrop that they had tuned out, was suddenly gone, leaving an almost eerie silence of normalcy. And, perhaps most importantly and valuably, his telepathic bond with Talia was returned.