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[viva_la_materia]

[The letters are scrawled, and slightly wobbly.]

Has anybody seen Night lately?

Comments

/also obligatory

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen him, either? Um, haven't you two been sort of tight recently? [The preceding sentence is struck out hastily.]

Well, now I am a little worried.

Aww, Kage is a good friend. ♥

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

He's my rival!

And yeah, usually he's really noisy and kinda hard to lose, but the last few weeks he hasn't been anywhere, and with the army craziness and those holes in the Scrapyard and stuff...well...

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course. My mistake. I'm sorry.

I was supposed to visit him at the Farm, but then something came up at the Bar so I forgot. I really shouldn't have.

It's Night, though. He's tough as nails, right?

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

Is he? I mean, I dunno, he's a really good fighter but he bleeds like anybody else, I mean, he bled all over me one time when we were fighting this monster thing. And if it's the Tree

[Pause, then strike. She feels like she's jinxing Night's life just mentioning it.]

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to drop by the Watch headquarters. Just to... make sure, you know?

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

That would probably be good.

Can you, um, tell me what they say? 'Cause he's my rival and everything, so nobody's allowed to mess with him but me!

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

[Insert some time here.]

They haven't seen him. And that's good because he hasn't been arrested or found somewhere, but bad because the Watch patrols the whole Sphere. I told them he was missing, anyway. I think that's pretty certain by now.

I really, really hope he's all right.

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

The whole

Somebody up there says he hasn't been to work in about a week, either. Kage...

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

[Juhani's comment gave her an idea. Insert more time here. Then hasty scribbling that is struck out almost at once.]

He's still alive. I promise you. He's in the Sphere somewhere.

[viva-la-materia.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? How do you know?

[She doesn't dare mention her brother, or King, or Void, or...well, anyway, Kagerou knows.]

...if you want explanatory quicklog that works for me, but no more on the journal.

[weaver-girl.livejournal.com]

Yes. Not here.