"I'd try stopping time, but I can't cover a huge area like that - and I don't know who else would still be able to move, even if I did." It was frustrating, to be sure; his abilities worked pretty well for dealing with localized things, but anything on that scale would require a complicated ritual at the very least - something he had neither the time nor the power to prepare, just now.

Soma nods at the advice. It's what he had intended to do regardless - he was going to save as many kids as possible, even if he had to put their parents under Siren's spell to do it. "I should probably be able to manage something without causing physical harm."