I see. Then I will ensure that their honourable families are notified of what's befallen them. Someone working for the Seat of the Tribune will know where to send the news.

(manon survived, but what of helvius and cerys?)

... But "too muddled to make sense of"... This is of note to me. Your confusion is not a surprise—more the fact that you could sense anything at all, though vague to you and perhaps indescribable. Would you try? Was it even slightly analogous to anything that you can think of?