Poor impulse control? Agreed. That's totally a thing. Death wish? Not so much.
A few moments are stolen to play carefully consider What Next. That's an Acamoth, yo. Even if it isn't? It sure screams 'don't mess with'. But maybe he's giving in to an illusion. The illusion of size, the illusion of assumption. You don't know what you don't know. Plus it super sucks that the Circle isn't a refuge here. It's not a hop, skip, and thought away with sturdy walls to shelter in, which brings up a terrible epiphany:
How are they getting out?
Clearly the best way to address that is the distraction of the original question. Fingers point at his eyes, then at the leviathan in the universal gesture for look.
Oddly? For once his hands are bare, and there's a quicksilver flash from one of his fingers at the base.
Star is looking for any sign of resonance or indication of Abyssal origin/taint. It's not quite a Scrutiny but more of a looking for an overt indication.