"It tried. Made us see things that weren't there. Confused us. Mostly it didn't work as well as it wanted, though," Soldat says. "I didn't take part in the first fight. I was. Support." (Hey, and they fucking needed that support, pal. I know. Still feels cowardly.) "The second we just had to distract it. Long enough for a bomb to blow it up."

This is not necessarily reassuring talk, but it's getting them to think of things that aren't electricity. So they're actually getting back down to baseline the rest of the way, even with this kind of subject matter. "Did you have world-ending monsters that flew? On your world?"