Bene had lost half an arm.
Cary had lost almost the entirety of his right leg.
Lukas had nearly died outright.
Vesa was nowhere to be seen.
The rest were in various amounts of pain.
A fantastic start all things considered, they could have died right at the start, but they didn't.
Once the shock wore off, Lukas stood with shaking limbs. No matter how hard he tried, and how much Skyla screamed at him, he couldn't stop himself from looking at the Ghast of Shorstone. Whether it was some strange defence mechanism from his mind so it couldn't harm him, or because of some other deep-seated inability to detach himself from it.
Of course, this was entirely by design, on the part of the ghast.
