It was the closest thing in his life, by far. Right as the very bright flash went off near at hand, he finished his spell. Directly before him opened up a world gate, a portal that acted as a window, tying two locations together, regardless of their distance or dimension.
As he readied to leap through, he felt someone rushing towards him, and barely had the time to look over his shoulder when she tackled into him. The Positioning of the world gate however meant that her tackling into him drove them both through the portal and beyond it.
It was merely bad luck on the part of the security forces that their anti magic grenades would come just barely too late, forcing the gateway shut, and cutting them off from both N'dal and Callandra.
Those two were now far far away, in a place N'dal had chosen specifically because of it's distance from the city. They would now be in
The Forest of Twilight