[center]Well, at least Scarlett wasn't getting beheaded today![/center]

Elise would nearly jump out of her skin as Mordred shoved an entire fucking car through a house, the car's automatic burglar alarm wee-wooing away now that it was firmly through someone's entryway. While Mordred was a bit too aggressive with her shoving, Elise had to silently agree that piping up about a True Magic without having the details about it is sort of like...a priest yelling this is God's Will without giving proof. If anything, now it made her even more worried that something on the scale of True Magic was overcome by...something. Or prevented by something.

Conner's statement was also confirming her worries. [color=fdc68a][b]"...Yeah, this town's...dead. Unnaturally dead,"[/b][/color] Elise said just before Orson began further explaining Heaven's Feel. 

[b]"Oh. I think I have at least a little idea what's going on here,"[/b] Elise said as she put her hands in her pockets, walking beside Leon. [color=fdc68a][b]"Director, Archimedes, I've got a hypothesis here. I know we've got no evidence, but...what if this isn't because Heaven's Feel didn't activate? What if this is exactly what someone wanted?"[/b][/color]

Without missing a step as she trailed along, Elise would stoop down low and grab a series of pebbles and one large rock. [color=fdc68a][b]"Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but as I understand it, the grail is a vessel to summon Heroic Spirits from the Throne of Heroes to do the bidding of Mages in a Holy Grail War, yeah?"[/b][/color] the magus asked as she closed her hands, opening them to reveal four pebbles between all five of the fingers on her right hand, and three held between the fingers of the left. [color=fdc68a][b]"Saber, Archer, Lancer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, Berserker, with one or more being switched out occasionally. All to get a wish, right?"[/b][/color]

Elise would palm the pebbles all into her left hand, then hold up the larger rock. [color=fdc68a][b]"Naturally though, summoning the dead from the Throne isn't something possible. The grail's the catalyst and goal, and supplies bodies to the Heroic Spirits, rather than the Counter Force. But that leaves us with more than a few questions."[/b][/color] Elise would drop the seven pebbles, and continue holding the rock. [color=fdc68a][b]"Seven Servants, Seven Masters, and one winner. Someone gets the grail, and their Servant or the Master themselves makes a wish upon it. Then, all the Heroic Spirits go back to the Throne, winner and all. But then, that's if the wish was granted at all."[/b][/color]

Pointing at Bunbuku Chagama, Elise would say: [color=fdc68a][b]"Chaldea's leyline reserves let us preserve our Servants through rayshifting, but an ordinary mage usually has to use up a ton of their own energy, or the energies of others to keep their Servant around. In theory it might be possible to keep one around if they consume huge quantities of mana but...even then, there's no need to consume an entire town. The Mage's Association would step in, I would think. Unless, of course, they were wiped out too in this Singularity."[/b][/color]

Tossing the rock in her hands a few times into the air, Elise would then throw it into the nearby river, the "grail" plonking into the water and sinking. [color=fdc68a][b]"So the grail either still has to be around...or someone made a wish so stupid and reckless that it claimed the lives of every single person in this city. Or maybe, the grail exchanged their lives for something else. Which, I think would mean that Heaven's Feel was triggered, but ultimately didn't 'end' the conflict here."[/b][/color] Turning on her heel to face the others, Elise would beam once more. [color=fdc68a][b]"Anyways, that's just my theory though. I'm mainly guessing some sort of magic was the cause of everything being erased here, since Mordred's Instincts are pretty reliable, I think. I'm not really so good with the complicated magical theories and all that...after all, that's more our Wizard of Balance's job. But..."[/b][/color] the smile faded from Elise's face as she straightened her posture, looking in the direction they were heading. 

[color=fdc68a][b]"If we're fighting something that used the grail to kill an entire town, we can't let our guard down. So let's hurry and see if this thing's on our side or not."[/b][/color]