[Mikleo can't help a shiver. He just... can't get past this feeling that something is missing, that something is deeply wrong, and it isn't getting better.]

Yeah. I went back to see if he was here and I had missed him. No one's seen him for days.

[He sinks down against the outside wall. There's a particularly enthusiastic cricket nearby but he can't really hear it.]

I'll talk to Nessie in the morning. Maybe...