Beth felt an unnatural shudder ripple through her ethereal body as she scouted the park with Autumn. The sensation worsened when raindrops began falling, then pouring down. With some reluctance, her body became solid again, and the raindrops bounced off. Splitting from the group as per Rikive's orders, she trudged through the downpour, a quiet grumble slipping past her lips every so often. 

The rain stopped all too suddenly to be of any comfort. Beth paused where she stood, squinting at her surroundings. The park had been a mess, sure, but not as overgrown as it was now. Since when did parks turn into jungles after a little rainfall? Just a moment ago, the moon barely peeked through the wooded park, now the sun shone on trees that certainly didn't belong in New Camden. 

She pinched the bridge of her nose, feeling nothing, and muttered to herself. "Some sort of magic, isn't it? [i]Wonderful[/i]." 

With the rain gone she became intangible again -- before all this Nemsemet mess she'd never had to switch in and out so frequently, it was starting to make her nauseas. Even passing through shrubbery as she was, she moved cautiously, eyeing every hiding place imaginable. Assuming the illusion served as a defence for the manor, it had to go pretty deep, or there was something more inside. Their best bet was to find the other pairs, regroup, and think their way out of it. So Beth moved silently forward, listening for the slightest sign of her comrades and feeling, like some kind of bug, for the energies that hung around them.

She thought the thunder returned when she heard that big boom, but it dulled soon after, and didn't sound like any kind of thunder she'd heard before. She stilled except to turn her head, made a rough guess at where it came from, then started off in the opposite direction. The second step she took, she felt something different zip through her foot -- not leaves or twigs, but something metal. Manufactured crap always felt cold, unlike something natural. Beth turned and crouched, low and carefully, and just about caught sight of the thinnest of wires spread taut from one bush to another.

She [i]really[/i] needed to find the others.