[ With everything sustained, it's a good of time as any to take a break. Spellcasting at such an intensity takes quite a toll and it would be reckless to exhaust himself in the middle of a potentially dangerous area. Besides... he needs to discern what she intends to do with the shard they came to Alenroux to find. She clearly has it.

Emet-Selch stands and resigns to sit against a tree some distance away. He draws both legs up to his chest and curls both arms around them. ]

You have two shards. Is that your intention for them both?

[ Shards are the embodiment of a person's soul - something he can clearly see - and he can observe two shards here. The muddied presence of Manon is what he followed to this place in order to find her. ]