[After the cool, stilted way his presence had been rebuffed the last time he attempted to speak with Hayame, Liem is not expecting her to seek him out through communion — and certainly not with such urgent force. The wave of her psyche crashes into him, battering against his mental walls and flooding inside in a torrent when he lowers them to admit the panicked connection. Though he cannot quite grasp the meaning of the jumble of images and sensations, struggling to separate memory from reality, one thing is immediately obvious: Something is very wrong.]
Hayame? Hayame! What is going on?
[He reaches out, into the sudden silence, and is met with nothing — the same empty feeling that had met him weeks before, when Set had vanished so suddenly, only to emerge “according to plan” from a cocoon at the Tree of Life.
What has happened to her?
Liem does not stop seeking that vanished connection. Even after he visits Hayame’s home, checks the inside and the grounds in search of clues of her whereabouts. Even as he roams Alenroux and asks others if she has recently been seen. He reaches out again: hours later, and then then again, until finally his seeking mind might connect with something, even if it is only a wall.]
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Hayame? Hayame! What is going on?
[He reaches out, into the sudden silence, and is met with nothing — the same empty feeling that had met him weeks before, when Set had vanished so suddenly, only to emerge “according to plan” from a cocoon at the Tree of Life.
What has happened to her?
Liem does not stop seeking that vanished connection. Even after he visits Hayame’s home, checks the inside and the grounds in search of clues of her whereabouts. Even as he roams Alenroux and asks others if she has recently been seen. He reaches out again: hours later, and then then again, until finally his seeking mind might connect with something, even if it is only a wall.]
Hayeme? Hayame, were are you?