Near the School, Early Wednesday Morning

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Perhaps it had been a stupid idea for Elizabeth to venture outside of the areas she knew to be safe, but... it didn't feel as if she was contributing much in her present endeavors. She kept feeling as if there was something more she could do, more she could see... as if there was something out there that called to her.

The sun had not fully risen when she saw it.

A twinge in the sky, so much larger than the one on her previous Fandom-- it ran the length of the horizon and then split apart. She took an involuntary step back, her eyes going big. As big as the water that rose, suddenly, up out of the previously calm ocean.

For a single moment, a light struck her back. She saw her own shadow writ large across the waves ahead for just a single instant - and then it was gone. The wave ripped across the preserve-side of the island, uprooting some trees - then it smashed hard against the side of the dorms, an unstoppable force meeting an unmovable object, and broke apart.

Elizabeth felt wetness on her face. She reached up to touch it. A single drop of water looked back at her, then shimmered, vanishing into a tiny rift as surely as every other last drop. Gone. As if it had never existed.

"Lives, lived, will live," she said idly, but she couldn't figure out why; when she touched her nose her fingers came back red.

[[ open for reactions to the wave itself, though not elizabeth. ]]