life_is_megas_wonderful*It happens without warning. She'd just been doing her normal thing, working in the restaurant. One of the patrons had looked ill, so she went to see if he was okay -- and he'd changed then. Suddenly, what was once the kindly old man who always ordered meatloaf once a week now is a huge, slavering beast.
People are screaming. Tsuruya backs up, startled. The creature howls, and swings a terrible claw at her, and hits...
...air?
Tsuruya had reacted without thinking about it, jumping several feet away. She grabs the first thing she can find -- a plate -- and slings it at the thing. It makes a shocking degree of impact.
She could question how it is she's suddenly acting faster and stronger than she did before -- but now's not really the time, is it?*