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Liem Talbott

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Liem's mindscape is dark; quiet; contemplative. Any feelings or sensations that Liem doesn't intentionally project himself seem distant, as though echoing from a far-off room. Following any given sense to its source is bafflingly difficult.

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after the above......

[leicesters]

[The communion that follows some time after Hayame's is like a sharp wind, one that whips at the skin, sudden and impossible to ignore. Claude is angry, but not at Liem in particular, even if he's the unfortunate recipient of it right now. He isn't sure who else to turn to, when he has little faith in Hayame's other so-called 'friends' to be of use, or even that they're trustworthy.

With none of his usual flippancy, his communion is short and to the point.]

Have you seen Hayame recently?

[sterngaze]

I do not know where she is.

[Impressions from Liem's mind are difficult to discern, as though seen through stained glass — but there is a muffled feeling of quiet tension, the same kind that might be found within a tightly-wound spring.

After the sudden and disorienting barrage of memory and sensation, Liem had taken the nearest cornerstone to Hayame's residence himself, to seek any sign of her and deduce where she might have gone. But all was as it should have been; if she was attacked, it did not occur at her home.]

I have not seen her since the week after the Oracle trial. Are you looking for her too?

[leicesters]

Yeah. I think she needs help, but when I ask around... it's like she vanished into thin air.

[There's palpable frustration under those words, even as he's doing his best to try to handle this all calmly. If Liem doesn't know, who else can he possibly depend on?]

If you're looking as well, tell me as soon as you get any leads. Please.

[sterngaze]

I will.

[Though, that's looking like a pretty big if right now.]

I've been looking around Alenroux, in the places I've known her to frequent, but no one seems to have noticed anything amiss.

[leicesters]

It's the same in Springstar. None of the Legionary know anything...

[And he's not sure how much to tell them without turning this whole thing into a mess.]

She contacted me by Communion. [He pauses, halts, amends.] --No, I suppose contact isn't the right word. She was in pain, and terrified. It's a miracle she had any strength of mind to reach out at all.

[sterngaze]

I received much the same. A jumble of images, sensations.

[His confirmation is grave, a hint of a frown accompanying the words.]

I have been running over it in my head since then, but nothing I recall strikes me as any kind of obvious lead. I don't know that the Communion was even intentional.