Haruki shouted after Almond as he charged with a metal pole, heading for outside of the snowstorm that was protecting them, "No! Wait!" It didn't take a genius to figure out that charging to face an army of whatever those things were was a [u]very[/u] bad idea. She looked to the hooded figure and she could easily sense that he was rolling his eyes (even though she couldn't see his face under the hood). She watched as the hooded figure pulled Almond back towards them with just a wave of his hand, before he could even step out of the snowstorm and allow the soldiers to kill him off. The figure scolded Almond, his voice just dripping with tired bitterness, "Do not mistake my words as a mission to undergo a meaningless endeavor. The cores are separate from those beings, and the rifts you see will not aid you,"

He waved his other hand towards his side, and a different rip, one that showed a peaceful scenery on the other side, appeared and he told them, "Look for portals like these. They will aid you. Now go," Haruki looked at the portal and back to Almond, and she started "But what about-" The figure snapped calmly, but impatiently, "There is no time for questions now. Go, before they build a resistance to the ice," Haruki looked at the soldiers to see what the figure was talking about. Some of the soldiers that were entering the snowstorm were now slowly moving, not easily frozen anymore. 

So it was either jump through that nearby portal...or face those guys. ...She'd rather take her chances with the portal. She looked to Almond and she said "Alright, let's go!"