Carmen was enjoying her time in the garden. Terotrax and Garden were keeping her nice company, and everything was fine. She heard someone yelling about an emergency meeting in the auditorium, and paid it no mind. [i]Probably just some unimport-[/i]

She hesitated.

[i][u]Emergency[/u] meeting? What possibly could warrant an emergency...?[/i] she thought, confused. As if on cue, her question was answered with the arrival of a shockwave, "What..." was all she could utter as the shockwave was immediately followed by the sky darkening. It wasn't a normal darkening - it was an...[i]evil[/i] one. Only then did she notice that it was also completely silent. If Garden could hear the flora, Carmen wondered if they were screaming. She almost wanted to scream herself, but that's not how she worked. She would only get totally silent when afraid, and this was one of those times. She managed to softly speak. "Garden...Terotrax...I don't think we're safe here. If other people are meeting in the auditorium, we should go there...immediately."

With that, she turned towards the campus and began running, almost immediately morphing into her bird form and flying towards the auditorium as fast as possible. It was still completely silent, and remained so until she reached the auditorium, where the only word to describe the scene was chaos. Everyone was reeling and screaming at the foreboding events that had just occurred. Carmen flew in, probably conspicuously, and shifted back into her human form to blend in - as well as a girl in a dress holding a long trumpet could blend in.