Inside 73: Holiday Rush

[5a Violista]

[Mysterious Crimson DracoProtector Obsidian]

Obsidian feels like both her and this other girl are on equal footing now, since they both have spirit minions. Well, Obsidian has a spirit dark maid and the other girl has a spirit cat but those two seem pretty similar in the end.

She's pretty sure this other girl is way overthinking Obsidian's question. It was just a basic yes/no question that didn't really matter, so she doesn't get why Catherine is acting so dumb and nervous and horrified about such a simple matter. Is she scared of undead or something? But, no, she has that cat so that can't be it. Did an elf undead eat her mom? Obsidian might be a little scared if someone was turning a dead body into a dragonslayer, so she feels a little sympathetic towards the girl.

"Yeah! Let's beat it up!" she says. "If the ghost-witch didn't want to get beaten up, then it should have known better than to intrude on The Beautiful and Terrible Obsidian's domain."
Obsidian is content not exchanging names. She's pretty sure lots of humans like telling people their names all the time so if Catherine doesn't want to share hers, she assumes there's probably a reason for that.

edit: Obsidian, after commanding her Dark DracoMaid to follow her, goes towards the obvious rift in space.


[Spirit Bomb]

Seraphina reaches the outside part with the emergency services, and starts telling them about what happened in there: how the mechanics behind the ghosts seem to work and how to get away from them, the few people she ran into and what they were doing (in case one of them needs help), the likelihood of survivors farther in, asking if anyone has seen a guy named Bruno or his dog walk out (unlikely), and, most importantly, the thing in the center and how dangerous it is and what its goal seems to be.
Definitely nobody should go to the center without being prepared.

Unfortunately,
After questioning her,
some of the emergency personnel realize she was out in there when the bomb went off,
and notice small scratches and other things on her hands
and notice the wrappings covering the mostly-healed-bullet-wound
and and notice the beginning symptoms of dehydration
not to mention, there's the possibility that,.if what she said was true, she might be bringing some of the ghosts and/or whatever memetic awfulness at the center out into the rest of the city

So Seraphina gets detained and prevented from leaving.