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By the time she arrived Acid Drop had, as usual, been passed by everyone else. Though for once she wasn't the last one to somewhere, with Oros behind her and the boss lady nowhere to be found. More importantly, there was someone who had to be the source of the light. After standing within sight for a few moments, she spoke up. [color=00aeef]"Did you cause the light?"[/color] Another few moments. [color=00aeef]"Did you cause the earthquake?"[/color]

Tonight was incredibly strange to Tsubomi. Not only had she not been able to put on her usual facade, not only was there an earthquake and a pillar to the heavens blinding her, but she wasn't able to [i]feel,[/i] it seemed. She didn't realize it until just now, the information coming at her usual slowness, but she didn't seem to currently have her usual sense of the emotions of others. Even if she was at zero, or at such a high number that her returns were diminished, she could still feel other creatures' emotions. The last time she'd been unable to was just after the beach...

Did Tsubomi go to a beach recently? She didn't think so. Everything seemed normal earlier today, so what happened? She didn't know. All she knew for sure was that tonight was yet another strange moment to add to the collection that had been the recent months, ever since the Club seemed to start fracturing. Since the Club gathered in full to eat Suki's cooking, since Kiyo and Shatterscape had left, since... Well, some time after that. She didn't think she was affected much by those things, so what was going on?

Synapses fired, and soon after a thought occurred. Her "tulpa," for lack of a better word, had been absent since... well, since she left the clubroom after the announcement that the boss would be joining them all on a hunt. Did she leave and take her magic with her? Acid Drop's head shook twice. She transformed, so it couldn't be that. Besides, could that even happen? Maybe she should talk to Kiyo about this tomorrow...

Her head wandered in seemingly random directions until she had taken stock of the scene before her. It seemed that the situation, whatever it was that was going on, was under control. Her left foot spun around to be next to her right, and she nearly fell as her body followed suit and allowed her to face away from Hizuki.

That was new, too. She felt as if she were going through a growth spurt, her limbs too lanky for her to control with the precision she normally had, little as it was. She rested her hand on Oros' shoulder in an approximation of a comforting pat and shot her the slightest of smiles, muscles atrophied from under-use, before starting her slow walk away from the Light Girl and Club members. 

[color=00aeef]"Mm... I feel weird,"[/color] was all she could say, understatement though it was. [color=00aeef]"This is interesting, right? Maybe boss will come see too."[/color] 

Now, how was she to find the source of an earthquake?