To the question about a shared illusion... "The way their energy felt. They desperately wanted their home and people back."

Before saying anything else that crosses over personal and second hand experience, he responds to the instability report.

"They're named Chaos and you think, oh, maybe they're not stable?" He snorts, flicking his fingers. "As far as I could tell, they were young, grieving, and terrifyingly too powerful to ignore. They killed people through neglect and grief, but does that make it okay? Of course not. Apparently everyone who fought with them while the rest of us evacuated people off world got them to admit they'd been wrong to hurt others in their grief and to stop, but like I said, I was anchoring. People bringing me those who needed evacuating could only say so much each handoff. Exhaustion afterwards made conversing hard."

Even remembering back, he feels that same exhaustion. He frowns at Yi and Er.

"Have you anchored before? Do you understand what that's like?"