Tommy noticed first.
The shift in Lukas's mood was not something that needed to be announced — it moved through the atmosphere the way temperature moves, present everywhere simultaneously, detectable by anything sensitive enough to receive it. Tommy's soul flames flickered once, the brief, controlled expression of something that has understood a situation and has feelings about it that it will not allow to interfere with what needs to happen next. The concern was there — visible for exactly the duration that Tommy permitted it to be visible, which was not long — and then it was set aside with the quiet discipline of a creature that had learned, through long companionship, when to feel things and when to function.
The Astral Bone Vanguard had no such refined processing available to it.
