Anders feels sick. All the pain that the child has been through, and now there's more because of what had been done to him. The stuffed nug is finally stuffed into a pouch before he grasps his staff with both hands and wraps the blade and half the staff in a sharp-edged ice spike.

A moment later he's stepping forward and swinging, which puts him possibly in reach of the thing but at least the ice may counter the fire of rage and meet Herian's blade in the middle of the poor boy's neck.