As the network begins to burn itself out, the spider nearest the portal begins scurrying towards it, before Draiss' energy lances it, as well. Unfortunately, the network seems to have been self-contained, and there's no link to the outside; the link-up to the outside network must have been made outside his domain. And such a defense is going to have absolutely no unintended consequences, whatsoever, aside from occasionally stripping people who walk through it, disintegrating any items they might be, say, borrowing, and, thus, aren't theirs.<br/><br/>About a month later, while Cerul is out on a personal errand, acting as an ambassador to a number of elven enclaves, on the border of one of the regions Draiss has influence in, he receives a short, cut-off, panicked message from her escorts, that only manages to inform him that they're under attack, before the team goes silent, one right after the other, in the span of about twelve seconds.