The approaching footsteps continued, but Thereos focus remained steadily on the task at hand.

Unfortunately for the woman, despite that very centaur's senses being on edge and heightened from what he had been performing prior to his kin's call, he could not hear what she had just said to the youngling. Though it did not take much for him to piece together what had been said as the youngling made an attempt at casting a spell. Why was the youngling making an attempt at casting and not the professor herself? Questions the centaur would demand answers for at a later time. His priorities lay elsewhere presently.

"Polaris is the name of our Heavenly Northern Guide," he hissed towards the dim witted two legged one. How was it that humans struggled so with his instruction? Perhaps the headmaster had done all a great disservice at the start of term feast in instructing his subjects to merely smile and nod whenever the centaur spoke? Soon he felt the rope he had cast into the water grow taut as the younglings in the water took hold and he pressed his strong centaur hooves against the dock as he pulled them in. Three younglings if the shadows he made out in the haze were correct, though the looks of one were grave and it both brought upon immense sorrow and deep rage to witness. "Reach out and grasp your salvation," he instructed while his body lowered to kneel and his arm muscles rippled. "Has the sun set upon one of you? Give them to me so that I may pull them forth from your watery tortures...the remaining two of you climb out then climb on to my back." He would carry the wilted youngling in his arms to be received by his kinsmen back at the castle and laid to rest accordingly. "I trust one of you has a wand and knows which words to speak to invoke the spell of Polaris?"

The footsteps grew louder and then ceased, drawing Thereos' attention away from the three younglings in the water to glance over his shoulder. His expression paled, fight or flight charged forth into overdrive, and he froze.

"....no....no...it cannot be...it cannot..."