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The Rulekeeper hadn’t expected such dissonance to form from turning partnerships into teams, an addition of a single member upsetting tenuous bonds till the Club was struggling against itself like a snagged beast. A little friction, perhaps, but then again, they hadn’t expected to be so sorely tested so soon. 

And several of their members weren’t operating at their best either. When Nyxia noticed someone wasn’t doing well? It was glaringly obvious to every other person in the room, though they lacked the firsthand experience of seeing Shatterscape poorly combat the Miseria. 

[color=orange]”I’ll keep close to her while you focus on the laser show. We won’t have-”[/color] An issue was what she wanted to say, but instead a glaring issue came bobbing before the window. Because even in her wildest paranoid fits had she not considered the Light Girls of all people would be brazen enough to attack them at their own school, all but declaring there was nothing stopping the conflict from striking you at your most vulnerable. 

[color=orange][i]These insane bitches. First the streets. Now our school. Are we going to wake up in our beds with a baseball bat coming to crack our skulls?! Will we be in the middle of class when a Magical Girl comes through the window for our lives?![/i][/color] 

Indignation and fear festered as she witnessed Morganite’s bold display, Shuuko’s words rolling off Roche like water from a duck’s back. She felt herself slipping, pulled down a swirling current as the situation tumbled outside her control in an escalating conflict the Club wouldn’t survive. All because the Light Girls had crossed every line.

Earthshaker transformed as a cold weight bowed her shoulders like the phantom hand of the Grim Reaper herself. Pupils dilated to pinpricks of darkness as she found herself sagging under the weight of Rei’s expectations. 

[color=orange]”No, none of you are staying behind. Morganite is mine. Nyxia, please lead the way to the rest of the club.”[/color] Resignation weighed heavy on her tongue and Earthshaker tugged her hood up, casting her stricken face in shadow as she approached the window and clambered onto the sill. 

[color=orange]”You were there at the beach. We nearly died because of you, and now you come to our club room. You planned this, so you can accept the cost.”[/color] The Rule Keeper exhaled the breath in her lungs, and she dipped forward. Light as a feather she reached out, hand grasping the banner of mockery strung before them. 

And shredded it with an explosion of force that sent Earthshaker rising upwards, palm outstretched to grasp Morganite like the talons of a bird of prey seeking prey as she rocketed upwards.