Me: "Should I design and draw these extras whose identities aren't important, or should I use silhouettes?"
The headache I had that almost made me take a sick day: "I have a suggestion."
Witnesses!
I felt I needed to address whether other people in the bowling alley noticed anything at exactly this point, or it would later be people saying "did you notice something strange earlier?"
"No."
"Nor did I."
"I'm glad we had this conversation."
Mostly, I wanted to confirm that our heroes aren't about to be swarmed by a bunch of curious people wondering what just happened, and to present the possibility of no real witnesses.
But I also had the thought "what if there was at least one real witness, but they wanted nothing to do with it?"
And thus did this guy return!
And I guess he canonically knows something magic is up with that cat-like girl and her friends now, because, well, in case a reminder is needed...
Hooray!