June 2nd-Evening (Phone)

[morethan084]

[With everything that's gone as of late, Skye is struggling with the fact that her mother had been in trouble with the law. She was also struggling to not act like she wasn't as affected by this as she was, considering no one around here knew they were related. Much less mother and daughter.

She was desperate now though and it was hard to keep the worry out of her voice.]

Has anyone seen Jiaying?

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[aeturnus]

Have you tried the hospital?

[ With the spate of accidents recently, it would make sense for someone around here to go temporarily missing, right? ]

[morethan084]

Yeah. I've checked there a few times. They haven't seen here then in over a month.

[What she had been doing there before then she wasn't sure.]

I've searched every obvious place multiple times and nothing.

[aeturnus]

Ouch. I'm sorry. How long has it been?

[morethan084]

It's-

[Well 'fine' wasn't the right word.]

It's been six days.

[aeturnus]

Some kind of search team is probably the next step.

[morethan084]

Yeah.

[She had thought about that, but...]

It would be a pretty small search team. Considering she disappeared after the party.

[aeturnus]

What party? Why would a party mean fewer people?

[morethan084]

You...?

[This town was small. Beyond small. How had he not heard about it?]

You don't know what happened?

[aeturnus]

No? I just got out of the hospital, guess I haven't caught up on all my town gossip.

[morethan084]

[Skye is silent for a moment because she really doesn't want to be the one to explain this to him.]

You'll hear about it soon I'm sure.

[aeturnus]

... Guess I will. [ He's going to have to ask around, isn't he? What happened...? ]

That search team, though, are you going to be able to put that together?

[ She sounds like this is all very personal. It doesn't hurt to offer help. ]

[morethan084]

Not sure how much of a 'team' it will be, but I'll try.

[Even just asking people if they had seen her made her feel sick to her stomach a little. The fact that this had affected people personally, she hated that it might bring up bad memories for them just to hear her name. Skye, of course, was torn how to feel about all of this.]

[aeturnus]

Count me in if you want. Sounds like you might need the number.

[ He really doesn't know the issue. But if someone is missing out there along with all this other mystery going on, he wants to do something about that. ]

[morethan084]

[While she understood that people felt betrayed or otherwise affected by all of this, it was nice to hear someone not see her mother as a murderer.]

Thank you.

[Considering this stranger has been nothing but helpful in offering his help, Skye figured she might as well know his name. Especially if she decides to take him up on that offer.]

What's your name?

[aeturnus]

[ There's a brief pause because, embarrassingly, his own name is not automatic knowledge yet. Chalk it up to some fun, fun amnesia. ]

Roman Fletcher. Yours?

[morethan084]

[She wasn't sure if the pause was because he couldn't remember his name, or that he was hesitant to say it over the phone.]

Skye.

Thank you, Roman. I'm sure I'll see you around at some point. This place is pretty small.

[aeturnus]

That it is. Take care, Skye.

[morethan084]

You too, Roman.