Sylas was inevitably scolded by his mother, a canon event he could only take in mostly silence, mixed in with a few words of affirmation. As for Elara, she seemed to have already scurried off with her new toys before Isolde could hope to take them away.
In one part, Sylas could clearly feel that while this seemed to be playing out like a joke, his mother was truly distraught by this. The life she hoped to return to was only being torn further and further from them, and there was nothing that she, as a mother, could do in hopes of changing it.
But in another part… Sylas knew that this was a band-aid that had to be ripped off.
Quite frankly, for the same reasons Sylas didn't care for his children to be powerful or not, he didn't care if his family was or wasn't either.
