Mayerling closes his eyes a moment in silent thanks to the Sacred Ancestor. Sharon hasn't died here. She'll comeback, he knows. It may happen some day. He'll be grateful every day until then that it hasn't.

He nods. Though Mayerling has seemed soft in many regards, he's serious when he looks to Sharon now. "Should anything come through a portal that you cannot kill, that you cannot execute, that would kill you, I will kill them."

Dead serious.

He looks through the portal at the shattered moon, calm and steady. "Argonaut's opened these portals. I suspect a small explosion might come through, but anything large enough to destroy Trench with no chance of defense would be beyond his purposes and beliefs," Mayerling says. Through his clothes, he pats the pendant he received from his patron, fully willing to use it if need be.

"Something's out there through that portal but distant. Doesn't sense us," Mayerling notes first. He then focuses on the world they're in. "Something far off ahead, further from Trench. Some kind of monster, but it smells different from Trench. It definitely came through a portal."

He frowns. "We need to get closer for me to know more."