Matilda had almost expected Garrot to be angry with her for speaking up, and he gets a wide, grateful smile in return for the smile he gives her. Things don't feel quite so frightening then- even when the Wizard makes her declaration. Matilda knows in the very deepest part of her heart, that even if the Wizard speaks the truth, that it must only be because there isn't another option yet. One that they can all find if they work together!

Then Haizea's exclamation happens, and the confidence that was there for a few precious moments is gone again. Even if Haizea isn't directly upset with her-- the friction between her and Gyre is so strong that it makes her want to abandon the conversation-- she makes to sit back down, but Gyre's fist on the table startles her out of her own thoughts and back into reality- just in time for her to glance back at Gyre, the anxiety clear in her face. She wants to shrink away and give up, but she can't yet.

"I don't want the world to die either. I have someone out there I want to protect too, and... there are so many more tremendously beauteous things to see and so many things I want to do-- but there has to be another way!" She speaks so quickly that her words jumble together, and her tone is much more meek than it was just moments ago, but she's still speaking up. "We have to try! We just simply must -- she says she will kill the Protector. But what if there's a different way?"