Before the humans who had woken up could continue their conversation, a sense of unease filled the air. Slowly, the sound of static appeared and rose in volume until it reached a deafening pitch. As the sound occurred, specks of yellow light could be seen around the nearby tower, floating about and switching brightness from dim to bright like fireflies. Soon the tower appeared to be glowing from all of the points of light attaching themselves to it, their glows becoming uniform as they did. When the last light touched the tower and the sound grew to be almost too much to bear the world around the tower seemed to crack in two spaces; next to the unconscious Anemone and next to Luso and Octavia, who had wandered over near the boxes. The light on the tower rose towards the sky, and anyone who wasn't closing their eyes from the noise would have their attention drawn to the spectacle. The rising light formed a ball which flashed outwards, blinding those looking at it for a moment. 

Luso managed to keep his eyes open long enough to see this happen before the searing light made him shut them. Octavia, who had just opened the box with the symbols on her Expanse Caller's screen a moment before, shut her eyes as she focused on blocking out the noise. In the same instant that the crescendo reached its peak and the light pillared to the sky, the crack near the two opened slightly and dozens of spindly white hands came from it, grabbing the two and pulling both them and their boxes into the white void that had appeared when the crack opened. At the same time, near Anemone, the other crack opened to reveal pitch blackness as black hands that mirrored those from the other tear in space rose out to grab her and her box. Both sets of hands quickly retracted after grabbing onto their targets, bringing them through the spacial rifts just as they closed, leaving behind no trace that the cracks had ever existed. 

A moment after the flash of light the static began to fade away to nothing, leaving a ringing in the ears of the three remaining humans. Looking around them, they would see that there were now several of what appeared to be yellow hardhats with green plus signs on the front of them laying on the ground nearby. A full count would reveal two to the south, one to the north, and three to the west, relative to the tower. The boxes for the three humans sat just next to the tower's base on the east side. Anyone who looked at the sky would see that the sun was now in the position it should be in at noon. 

Aki's diamond symbol's bar was now at approximately ninety-two percent, (92%) while Suzuki's white egg symbol was at around eighty-four percent, (84%) and Enma's red egg and red flame were at about eighty-seven percent (87%) and ninety-five percent (95%) respectively. 

There was a flash from near the tower as the three boxes that were still there each flashed a light at a steady, repetitive pace. Aki's flashed blue, Suzuki's flashed white, and Enma's flashed red, all muted colors that weren't too bright on the eyes but were bright enough to be notable in the sunlight.

The air suddenly felt a few degrees warmer.