[color=39b54a][Celine[/color] and [color=FA341D]Claire][/color]

Celine hops over to Claire and returns the fist bump before retrieving her gun from the golem. 
 
[color=#39B54A]”So you can make explosions now?!”[/color]
[color=FA341D]“Yeah! Isn’t it great?”[/color] 
[color=#39B54A]”You can see the golem I can make, but that’s not all, I can cover myself in quartz as armor too!”[/color]
[color=FA341D]“That’s pretty neat! I don’t think I want to cover myself in explosions though.”[/color]
[color=#39B54A]”Maybe if I covered you in crystal first it would be safer?”[/color]
 
It doesn’t work.
 
[color=#39B54A]”Maybe you can cover me in explosions? Don’t blow me up though!”[/color] Celine says with a glare while materializing the armor around herself.
 
[color=FA341D]“Okaaay.”[/color] Claire visualizes a very weak explosion on Celine’s back and it almost instantly detonates. Celine doesn’t even move an inch.
[color=FA341D]“Guess I have to use more force,”[/color] she mutters to herself, trying once more.
 
By the time Claire’s blasts are able to push Celine around, the quartz is already badly damaged.
 
[color=FA341D]“It’s too dangerous to make the explosion any stronger.”[/color]
 
[color=#39B54A]”Aww, that’s too bad, but you could just do it to me while I’m not inside.”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]“Yeah. If I blow up your golem, can you get another one?”[/color] 
 
[color=#39B54A]”Time to find out.”[/color]
 
Celine prepares the golem a good distance from them, the far corner. Claire backs away as well and readies up a powerful explosion. The red circle glows painfully bright aaand--nothing happens. The adrenaline that had built up in Claire’s system slowly drains away in the next ten minutes. She gently pokes at the circle, [color=FA341D]“Is it stuck??”[/color] 
 
Celine, crouched by the other end of the room calls out [color=#39B54A]”Did it work yet?”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]“No??”[/color] 
 
Celine walks the golem around, as if that would change the situation. Nothing changes.
 
Claire turns to Ai-chan and asks, [color=FA341D]“Help. Is my soul tech stuck?”[/color]
 
[color=f49ac2]“No. The ability will trigger eventually.”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]“How long will it take?”[/color]
 
[color=f49ac2]“I can’t tell just based on the color of the circle. What did you try to do?”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]“Celine and I wanted to see if she could remake the golem after it broke. So I made a super powerful explosion.”[/color]
 
[color=f49ac2]“It won’t trigger for several hours at the least.”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]”Oh. Can I make it stop?”[/color]
 
[color=f49ac2]“Breaking the surface of the circle will cancel the ability.”[/color]
 
[color=FA341D]“Okay, thanks Ai-chan!”[/color] 
 
[color=f49ac2]“You are quite welcome.”[/color]
 
Claire creates a small, but decently powerful explosion on the ring of the circle. The attack disrupts the red circle and it deactivates--much to the relief of Celine and Claire (and probably Ai-chan).