"There, now," Dickon says again, as soothingly as he can manage.

"Us can't say what's happened yet, don't tha give up so fast..."

He pauses for a moment, indecisive. Approaching Blodwen Rowlands doesn't seem like any more of a good idea now than it ever has, but there are other people all around, and whatever she was trying to do has apparantly been stopped, and they need to know just what happened, and what it means.

He squares his shoulders, touches the stone through the cloth of his pocket, and walks toward the woman in white and those surrounding her.