The man's speech resonated over the entire crowd and the inharmonious banter silenced, only to occasionally follow up what the man said with either boos or cheers. Blaise found himself slowly walking through the crowd though, following the rhythmic scintillation of his geode.

"He's got to be somewhere here", Blaise thought to himself. "All of this sounds so familiar, and... This thing's got to be reacting for a reason-"

The boy's thought process was interrupted by a loud thud; another member of the crowd, much larger than he. Without an apology, the teen scrambled and picked himself off the ground only to find his "soul-geode" rolling away into the mass of feet. 

"-Fuck.." he whispered under his breath, his eyed darting around as fast as possible to locate the crystal.