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Maybe you should ask your new item for advice. You look at the Luminous Stick and wait for an answer. The Luminous Stick cannot respond as it is an inanimate object. What a terrible turn of events. You’ll have to do this on your own.
“I’m here, Partner.” Philonune reminds you that you’re not the only being in the world who lacks any choreographic knowledge, and feels totally out of place here. “And yes, they appear to be controlled.”
“Aw shucks.” You must do something to mend this. At least with Emily. You can’t save the world on your own, that’s why you form teams of misfits and Liu. One step at a time it is. First, you’re going to observe this phenomenon before drawing wild conclusions. Or pretend your wild conclusions came from these observations.
You survey the area. Everyone is furiously dancing in unison. If you’re overscrupulous, you’ll notice that some people are out of sync, some not even doing the moves properly, but it’s such a low percentage that it becomes background noise. Like the big guy next to you is doing quite a poor job, but you can tell he’s doing it by his own accord, and more importantly, having a blast. Now you observe Emily, and observe her you do, she’s quite bouncy unlike the main star on the stage. A-Anyway, her movements are clean, close to perfect even, the best you’ve seen, she’s graceful, but it doesn’t translate into enjoyment, she’s bored even. This is the first time in the entire day you’ve seen her like this. And you have to thank Carol for that…
Those who look the most apathetic are the ones most proficiently dancing. This is not normal no matter how you slice it. The Blue lighting makes you think there’s something more nefarious going on. If you recall correctly, the people being controlled by Bernie’s power had a tint of blue flame in their eyes. You think you can use Philonune’s powers to dim the blueness for a moment to confirm your suspicions. Since Flames aren’t affected by lighting, you should be seeing blue, right?
You scramble your brain to make this apparent, and it works, kinda. Point is, you see blue flame-ish things in the dejected dancers’ eyes, including your lovely Emily. You knew that the side-effects would take some time to go away, but you didn’t think it’d create this type of reaction at this point in time. At the end of the day, Flame Abilities are more intuitively understood than scientifically researched, so you’ll never know for sure how they work…
There’s no other option but for you to try to wake up your date from her trance…
“Emily, are you alright?” You check on her first by grabbing her arm then leaning forward to hear an answer. She’s not stopping dancing, but her arm stays in place.
“Is there something concerning you, boss?” Emily asks back into your ear. “<span class="mu-i">Boss…?</span> Why did I say <span class="mu-i">Boss</span>...?” Emily seems perplexed by her own answer.
