[Romani's gaze wanders from Apollo to the waddling off Bombadgy and back to Apollo again. Yeah. What was that, really?]

. . . . .

[He shrugs his shoulders.]

Looks like an exploding tanuki to me.

[Shaking his head, he offers Apollo a hand.]

Sorry that I can't give you any deeper analysis than that, but I'm currently out of all my sensors and other analytical instruments. More important, can you stand? We probably should get moving, since that explosion got a lot of attention.