Almost two weeks pass. Sadde still has work, even if school's out, but they and Theo hang out a bit more. No new cards appear, and Kero seems to not think that strange, so Sadde themself doesn't care. And one day Theo gets a text in the morning: Happy birthday!
"It's troublesome. It steals other people's and things' shadows to grow in power and it can become very powerful. If it's just activated, then it will probably cause a lot of trouble tonight, when the bakery's closed."
"Oh, okay, so it's probably a good thing that we planned to go back tonight," Theo says. He also quickly checks his and Sadde's shadows to check they're still there.
They're still there. "And how do we catch it? It's shadow, how physical can it even be?"
"You can't touch it, but it can touch you. You'll need to use Windy to entrap it."
"Well... that shouldn't be too bad, right? Just... a ridiculous amount of property damage..."
"Not to mention potential cameras being quite able to tell just who caused said property damage."
"... Mask up? And I'm not sure if people could really blame the wind on us, even if we were caught there, unless we were holding some sort of leaf-blower. I mean, they could try, like the shopkeeper did today, but it might be harder if they re-play the video and watch us not doing it?"
"Yes, and do you think we'll be very unsuspiciously around, looking very quiet and innocent, while massive amounts of property damage happen?"
"More or less. Shadow using its powers can be hard to see, because it's just a shadow, so if it pushes a cake then no one notices. But its actual manifestation is visible."
"Okay, well, that still leaves us with the problem of how to go about this. If it's Shadow, what weaknesses does it have? Just turn a light on and it acts like a witch with water, or...?"
"Lights can make the shadows it's collected disappear, and only its true form will be left."
"Which we will then need to cause massive amounts of property damage to capture."
"Okay, so light is a good start then? Then we use Windy to try to trap it, and then that's done? That sounds a bit too simple, even if we do take into account 'plus lots of property damage'."
"Well, the other two weren't exactly complex, and if we'd had time to plan them they'd probably have gone over pretty smoothly as well." Pause. "Well, Jump, anyway, I wasn't there for Fly, maybe you neglected to mention something that would make it really awfully impossible."
"Nope, not awfully impossible, just difficult since it was so sudden and I only had Windy. What about if the card at the bakery is Mist? What are its weaknesses?"
"It's probably not Mist, it would make the cake slippery and push it, not throw it like that. And it also sometimes corrodes things it touches."
Sigh. "And how about... Float? Even if it is usually docile, what are its weaknesses? Needles?"
"Float? You know, it might be a balloon, so try popping it with a needle? Or it could be a cloud..."