This didn't happen when he touched the cow. Wasn't a portal to the auditorium supposed to, like... open up? And Merlin unfreezes and comes running out to safety?

Armani's not letting go of this star chart, though. It's Important. It's a Key. A Root, maybe? He's still not too sure on all of that yet. What he is sure of is that in earthquakes he's supposed to get under a desk. So he does just that. (His parents would be proud, except for the fact that he's doing this in Wizard Hell.)

"Is Merlin still out there??" he asks over the rattling, holding on to a leg of the desk.