"Alright. 'Split up, count to ten, and hunt' seems a good rule to me."

Ellie nods.

"On three?"

"Sure."

And, on the count of three, she takes off.

Ellie heads off at an angle, jogging her path twice.

She focuses on cutting Ruby out from the privilege of perceiving her during the ten-count.

Ruby takes off her bracelet, slipping it into her pocket.

Sensing - or at least separating out - a normal human is much, much harder than sensing an active artifact wielder. Most can't really take advantage of this - using magic without an artifact active is hard - but the easiest way to kill most wielders is to separate them from their artifact. Ruby would be a fool not to practice against the same tactic she uses.

She then calmly strolls into a more crowded part of campus, matching herself to the general background hum of everyone around her, and finds a chair - slightly obscured from the entrance - to sit in.

And, taking care not to reveal herself (since magic use tends to light you up like a bonfire), she calms herself down and lets herself just drift, filtering out everything she's sensing, searching for Ellie's already familiar light.

Ellie heads up, into the sky. People don't tend to look up, and it offers a better vantage to scan.

Ruby's nowhere visible to the naked eye.

There's a lot of people on this campus, pretty much all of them human. A scan reveals only one light at all as bright as Ruby's - in one of the libraries, a bit far from where they started. Staying still, for now.

Hmm. That doesn't really make sense as a place for her to be, if she's also hunting Ellie.

She'll get a bit closer to investigate further.

Seems to be -

Not Ruby.

There's a different girl instead, dark haired, white, who glances over at Ellie with a frown, which deepens when her gaze settles on the lightning cat. She seems wary.

-oh that right, she mentioned a magical girl upperclassman.

..Backing up now. She has other things to do today.

The magical girl lets her retreat.

So library is a bust. They didn't really set a zone but leaving campus seems unlikely. Any other hotspots?

Not really; there's certainly more crowded areas, which are brighter in general - harder to tell people apart, too - but no individual stands out.

Hrm.

She'll go down and stalk the crowds on foot.

A suspicious amount of nothing.

The fur at the back of her neck is standing on end, a bit.

She jumps back up into the air.

The feeling subsides only slightly.

There's no tigers, no matter where she looks.

What about person-shaped Rubies?

Hard to say.

She has a faint sense still of being watched.

Mrh.

She's got to be close. There has to be a way to find her, some kind of divination or- Magnetism. Which is just a kind of electricity so it should fall under her purview. A compass that points to Ruby.

The compass points straight at Ellie.

What, is she behind her?

Based on the blur rushing for her: perhaps!

Dodge reflexes, don't fail her now.

Ruby tackles her with a laugh.