"Property's a lost cause anyway." A rather grim thought about flower dragons and funeral arrangements poked into his head, unwelcome and awful. "But if we can get the last people we can save out today..."

Look, he wouldn't mind leaving a lot of the cleanup to kinetic mages and elementalists and whatever. Duty and responsibility wee one thing, self-preservation another, and they might run dangerously close to needing the latter at this rate.