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Emi crossed her arms as her contemporaries gave their answers, though to her chagrin, it seemed there wasn’t much to tell. Maybe she shouldn’t have expected so much; it was the very beginning of the school year after all, nobody had seen each other for months, why would they know what was going on? Not to mention Yamamoto. Emi was disappointed in herself for that one. She used to be the one who insisted that regular, everyday causes for discontent be ruled out before they jumped to mirrors and Shadows, and here she was, jumping the gun. Maybe she overestimated herself here; maybe it was just her desperation to find her friends that had her seeing clues where none existed. 

Of course, self-aware as she tried to be, she couldn’t let go of the hope—no, the [i]fact[/i]—that something beyond the normal stresses of life was riling the school up. She didn’t survive fretting for months with [i]nothing[/i] just to wave off a new pattern when it was dangling in front of her face, even if the real-world evidence was shaky. Hell, she and her friends had gone into the mirror over less, right? And those dreams couldn’t possibly be coincidence. There was something to it, there [i]had[/i] to be. It was just a puzzle, that was all. 

As luck would have it, feeling her way through mazes was something of a specialty. 

But for the moment, Naomi’s questioning demanded her attention. Yikes, it did kind of sound like she was a little suspicious, didn’t it? Of course, Naomi had no reason to think there was any supernatural explanation to the school’s recent unrest, but that didn’t mean someone couldn’t, say, go around anonymously stirring up drama to make everyone tense. That said, she was a little put out that Naomi could think she was capable of such a thing!

[color=E5C4CD]“I don’t know what I know,”[/color] Emi blurted out, somewhat unhelpfully. [color=E5C4CD]“I mean… hey, for all I know, it really [i]could[/i] be the storm working everyone up. Or it might be something else.”[/color] Naomi had made a good point earlier; it was strange that the school administration asked the Council to help them with the rise in delinquency. That, at least, was a helpful indicator that unrest in the school was objectively higher than in previous years. Not conclusive, but a decent start. 

[color=E5C4CD]“...For one thing, it could be that the fires last year are still weighing on everyone’s minds,”[/color] she suggested, biding her time until she [i]really[/i] had to make herself look crazy. [color=E5C4CD]“I know the vast majority of the school didn’t personally know them, but the deaths of classmates have got to carry a lasting burden, whether people realize it consciously or not. Sorry, Nakano-san,”[/color] she added at the end, nodding in Nakano’s direction. It was probably a sore topic—it certainly was for her—but it needed to be brought up nonetheless. [color=E5C4CD]“Aside from that, we have too little information to say. But I can weigh in on a game plan to deal with it.”[/color]

Emi folded her hands together in some imitation of authority, addressing the whole group. [color=E5C4CD]“I’m not saying we go vigilante on our classmates and confront them over their actions—like I said before, only the administration has that authority. But,”[/color] she held up a finger, [color=E5C4CD]“we [i]can[/i] try to find the cause of the issue. There’s gotta be [i]something[/i] behind it, right? So, I propose that we cooperate with the administration to try and talk to offending students. If we know [i]why[/i] they’re lashing out the way they have been, we might find a common thread between them. If such a thing exists, we can deal with the rise in unrest at its source. Thoughts?”[/color] 

There; a realistic enough approach. But, if she was lucky, she might figure out if the source of all this unrest really [i]was[/i] Shadow activity. Her only fear was that it would take the entire school year to find out. 

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