They hear--they feel--there is a pulse coming from nowhere, and where they'd just reached. Away and above at once. The Nightmare's Heart, where they last heard it when they tentatively crept into the back of the Tent to find Grimm, moving with each beat.

It's not enough to distract them from sending out another tendril-laden Shade Soul straight back.

What does distract is watching those mostly-independent tendrils reach and drag one of the flying flames into itself. Another clips them and the final slams into them headfirst when they try to flutter out of the way and just manage to go straight into it.

Launching backwards, fed up, they Dive to the bottom of the shaft. They need a moment to collect themselves--