Asunder- apart; divided; in pieces
Alright, it's apt at least.
Everyone was gathered around Anzu as close as they could be (despite the brunette's complaints that witchcraft took space and silence thank you very much), watching the map she had placed on her chalk drawings.
It was a detailed map of domino; the most detailed and up-to-date that Solomon had.
And it was being torn to shreds.
Well, that wasn't exactly true. As Anzu chanted things about the stars and feelings and being led to Yami, the map was being systematically sliced by what appeared to be nothing. It was almost as if it was being trimmed, a centimeter at a time, cutting alternatingly across each edge but not disrupting the rest of the map. But since the slashes were hair-thin and the map was undisturbed by the supernaturally thin and smooth cuts, it seemed to everyone that was looking that nothing was happening.
Then, halfway through one of the slashes, the cut stopped.
Anzu's eyes, which had been closed, flew open, but she didn't stop her chanting. More minute slashes appeared on the paper around that area, slowly but surely zeroing in on the location of their lost friend.
And then, suddenly, Anzu stopped.
"What? What happened? Where is he?" Yugi asked, on edge from being separated from his brother for so long.
"Let me see," Anzu answered, reaching forward and slowly brushing the severed pieces of the map away, larger pieces first and continuing until one, small circle was left.
The piece of the map that indicated the Kame game shop, which they were currently sitting in.
"That can't be right," Ryo frowned, the first to speak after a long stretch of silence.
"Didja use Yugi's picture or somethin'?" Joey asked, picking up the pictures they had used and squinting at them. No, they were definitely Yami; the red eyes and commanding posture confirmed it.
"The spell is accurate," Anzu bristled, snatching the pictures back from Joey and placing them back on the corners of the map, "it hasn't been wrong before, and Yugi and Yami are different people so it wouldn't confuse them!"
"Then… why didn't it work? We'd know if Yami were in here with us," Tristan pointed out.
Everyone was silent. Even Anzu didn't have an answer for that one.