"Well, we didn't even disembark," Soldat says. "We were snatched. No time to prepare at all-- I don't even have my combat uniform." And they have absolutely no idea what happened to their lantern, if it's invisible somewhere on their person, or shrunk down and illusioned into something else, or... what. Because it's clearly not here.

They're not going to tackle the likelihood of being effective against a thing of magic that throws illusions at you. They've already had to sit out a couple battles in Beacon because that was the tactic of the enemy, and they couldn't fight it.