For a moment, right after hearing the first explosion, both Seraphine and Merlin feared that it was Eric who was trying to blow up the Magic Tower.
They thought that he found out where she was and assumed that she was being held captive – or something along that line. So, now, he's throwing a mad fit by throwing bombing threats here and there. But then, that turned out to be not the case at all.
The court magicians who're working outside of his headquarters had informed them that it was coming from below the tower's dungeon.
"A prisoner has escaped!" one of them exclaimed.
While an inmate running away already sounds like trouble, a fleeing inmate from the Magic Tower is double that trouble.
