Tauriel often spends the deepest part of the night keeping watch by Chara's tower door. Tonight is not an exception--not for this, at the least. The cries of pain that echo through the halls, the cracks that go with them: those are not usual at all.

At once, she is running down the tower stairs, seeking the one in such dreadful pain. What could be causing this? What are those sounds? They are as tree branches breaking under heavy feet, or--

Ai Belain, no.

"Sans!" she shouts as she runs ever nearer.