Right about now the bits and pieces he's learned to defend over the course of his Travels would be very useful. But as it stands, he just just has to hold on to the knowledge that something is trying to fool him with illusions.

Illusions of a dark skinned woman asking him to come this way are particularly unfair. But not entirely thought through. "You really think she'd ask me that when I'm holding the baby?"

Zoe might be the person he wants to see most right now, but she's also the last person who would ever put Rose in danger.

"Not a baby." Rose keeps her eyes closed, but she can't let that go unprotested.