"The same way as normal means you trap it. You got a plan for that?"

"Hoping it wouldn't move too fast? And-or using Windy – that is to say no I don't, feel free to offer ideas!"

"First we figure out which card it is, and—Kero?"

"I don't know."

"Assuming it's the same card as before, it managed to make ghosts and a storm appear."

Theo eyes it suspiciously. "And for some reason stopped, we think because of a sorcerer?"

"Which means you wouldn't be able to capture it anyway."

"… Okay, yeah. But if I just leave it – more ghosts."

"Are we staying away from time? Because we could try freezing it or something."

"...we could try that, I suppose."

One more ghost.

Maya gets out a piece of paper and starts scribbling. "Objections or should I work on that –?"

"Be careful about the phrasing? Please?"

She nods.

And then, after a few moments, "Time, our loyal friend, marching along beside us, I call upon you to slow down the card we find ourselves against, aid us in stopping it and its harm!"

There is a twinge in the back of her mind—

—the earth cracks between her feet and starts widening—

– She stops!

That is definitely not how magic backlash works and the crack does not stop widening because of it!

"The fuck!" she shouts, moving away from the crack.

It is a very wide crack!

"...so doing time magic is possible but costs basically infinity mana."

Well it was between her feet and now it is not!

"Apparently!"

"Could try calling upon the sun and the moon to halt it somehow, instead of time to literally freeze around it."

"You got the cards list with you?"

"Voilà," says Maya, showing the list.

Theo keeps watching the card-or-whatever.

"—can the Create make things that aren't, like, substantial?"