[ Yeah, Lucy didn't think he'd go for that. Lucy's not sure she wants to go for that either, since really, it would only identify one frequency. ]

Okay, 'scrolling through all possible frequencies picked up so far' it is, then.

[ Luckily, she's been keeping a log of the frequencies the berry has been putting off so far, and it's relatively easy to have her Bursterfly start outputting the opposite, a sonorous hum that raises and falls in pitch, changing tone every ten seconds or so. ]

Now we wait and see which of these makes your hair stop looking like a nightclub.