Catch-all: Luxanna

[ercnerd]

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Week 0: Friday

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart is back in his uniform with small bite marks on his face and their faded remnants on his lower arms. With his sword balanced by the hilt over his shoulder, he walks the dorm grounds when he spots Luxanna.]

Oh, it's you. How are you doing?

[illuminance]

... I've been better...

[ but ]

I was worried about you.

[ercnerd]

This is nothing. We should be more worried about what else happened last night.

[illuminance]

I'm worried about that too, but there's no reason not to be concerned with both.

[ercnerd]

My body's endured worse than this before.

[And he'll leave it at that to move on:]

You look like you're looking for something.

[illuminance]

[ no?? she's not dropping that so quickly??? ]

... It's true that you don't seem too roughed up. But I'm more concerned with how you wound up where you were, when none of us could leave our dorms.

[ercnerd]

[Fine.]

I know as much as you do on that matter. I don't remember getting up in the middle of the night, much less leaving.

[illuminance]

And you had been back in your dorm, with everyone else?

[ercnerd]

I was. If you're in the mood for cross-checking, everyone there can vouch for me.

[illuminance]

No need. I believe you.

[ just something she had been wondering about. after a moment: ]

Hiyori had a dog. I was trying to find her.

[ercnerd]

What does she look like?

[illuminance]

[ lux doesn't know much about dogs, so: ]

Little.

And brown - with darker brown, perhaps black? On her back. She's very cute - and friendly, too.

[ercnerd]

Even a small dog shouldn't be too hard to spot here. Is anyone else searching?

[illuminance]

I'm not sure. I don't know who else had met her...

I can't fault anyone who isn't thinking of this sort of thing right now.

[ercnerd]

Dogs are intelligent creatures. She might know something about last night.

. . . Even if she doesn't, she belonged to Hiyori. We should find her for that alone.

[illuminance]

Mm. She might be hiding, somewhere.

[ercnerd]

[There's a beat before he lets out a muted sigh.]

Dogs will follow the scent of a familiar item home. If it comes down to that, you can use something of Hiyori's.

[illuminance]

I don't have anything of his.

[ercnerd]

That's why it's a last resort. You'd have to ask someone from his dorm in case he left anything there.

[illuminance]

I'm not even sure which dorm he was in.

[ercnerd]

He wasn't in mine. We'll have to ask around.

[illuminance]

He isn't in the Fall Dorm, either...

I'll ask around tomorrow, if I don't find her tonight.

[ercnerd]

I'll let you know if I find her before that.

[illuminance]

Thank you.

She's a dog, so... I'm sure she can survive one night outside. But I'd like to find her.

[ercnerd]

Let's not waste any more time, then.

[A dog can move around, so he doesn't bother to split the area with her. However, Sieghart pauses after taking a step to move past Luxanna.]

Before I go, did you hear anything in your dorm last night?