"Um. Nnnoo? We could try leaving stuff behind, though, Hansel and Gretel style."

"I have some computer cable, but it's not nearly long enough. Hansel and Gretel style it is. I'll happily sacrifice the remains of my lunch for this."

"We could leave leaves and sticks, too?"

"Yeah, whatever works as long as it makes a straight-ish line." For example, a handful of the distinctive rocks used as a border for the pond. He starts laying them down.

She helps! "I don't think they strictly need to be touching each other, there can be some distance between them as long as they form a reasonable line, yeah?"

"Yyyep." His chosen spacing is about two feet apart.

She'll do the same.

And eventually they find their line again.

He connects it up. "Alright, so now we just go very carefully along the line, looking for a red band, the cross point."

"Does it necessarily look like a red band?"

He taps the notebook. "Kero said it does, during our quiz-fest the other day."

"Oh. Should be easy enough, then, unless it's like super hidden somehow?"

"I'm not sure how hidden-or-not it is, just be on the lookout for red. Maybe on the floor, maybe in the air, maybe sneaking around a tree."

"Alright." Look look look. It's really not obviously anywhere.

Tedious methodical checking. Terry wishes he thought to ask whether the line could move, or was unnaturally attention-aversive, or anything like that.

Sufficiently methodical checking eventually reveals a thin, almost translucent red line on the ground, stretching apparently indefinitely in both directions.

"Oh, look at this... This isn't the card's 'True Form' though so I don't think trying to seal it right now would work. And I'm not sure how to force it out."

"What cards do we have? There's Change, Windy..."

"And float. Change one of these sticks into a weapon?"

"Yeah could try that," she says, grabbing a stick and offering it to him, then she glows—

—and is holding the card. "Wanna do it or should I?"

"You go ahead. I'm going to get-" Toss "-Windy! If Loop appears keep it from going anywhere."

She appears, and nods assent.

Sadde turns the stick into a blade. "Ready?"

"Ready."

So Sadde attempts to cut the red band with the blade.

It doesn't work. "Well that's disappointing."