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You need to ease your mind about what just happened, the only way is to have some answers about what it was.
“Well then, Noon. They’re safe and sound.” Houda shakes off the dirt from his gloves.
“I wonder what happened.” You ask out loud again. “I’ve never seen something like it.”
“I had different types of hurdles during my heists, this is the first of its kind. Earthquakes are awfully rare, but they do happen. What a terrifying spectacle.” Houda half chuckles. He didn’t like what he experienced. Neither did you, but cataclysms of all varieties have happened the last few months in your life and you’re getting used to the chaos.
“You didn’t see the shockwave?” You’re surprised.
“Eyes on the prize, Noon. It speaks badly of myself that I ignored my surroundings, but winners tend to get tunnel vision.” Houda has a pathetic excuse to not notice. Maybe that’s why he wasn’t affected like Kobashi and Fiora? No, that makes no sense. “What was this supposed shockwave like?”
“Like a burst of wind. Maybe I imagined it.” You shrug.
“Quack, quack.” Dorothy assures you the shockwave was real.
“But what was that?” You ask.
“Quack, quack, quack, quack.” Dorothy explains.
Wait a minute, you don’t understand quacking! This is useless to you!
“Is there some kind of brilliant scientist trapped inside this lively duck that you feel obliged to have a conversation with her, my friend from the distant future?” Houda drips with sarcasm.
“Yeah.” You nod. It’s kinda like that, isn’t it?
“…The incoherent reality we live in gets more dreadful by the minute. Reason has parted from this world.” Says the man in a silly costume.
“Quack.” Dorothy agrees.
You better ask Naiad instead.
The little fairy lets you know that the shockwave and the subsequent tremor were caused by the Bubble Gate’s shrinkage. It’s a delicate and difficult process to collapse the size of the spiritual energy flowing, shrinking it too fast makes the energy recoil and expand for a moment before recalibrating – liberating some power in the process. It was unlikely that San Wich would handle it perfectly, so it was bound to happen. The Shockwave was a signal that the Gate is ready for its final shrinkage. Guiding energy is never easy.
You also ask Naiad if these two will be fine, and she believes so.
“Quack…” Dorothy didn’t understand anything Naiad said since the fairy is only dancing, and feels left out.
“Is that piece of furniture giving the answers you need?” Houda wonders as, to him, you look like you’re blankly staring at nothing.
“Kinda.” You nod again.
“…I’m not sure why I ask these questions when the answers leave me perplexed.” Houda is going through a personal crisis.
