Sorry. It's just that... guarding and nurturing the matriorb was my one and only task. [Set forth by her lusus, no less.]

For it to be destroyed by a wand of my own design is an almost unthinkable irony. I effectively shot myself in the foot... Only things might have been better if I had actually literally shot a hole in my foot. At least then, I might have never alchemized that wand, and there may have been a chance of the matriorb's survival.