Whatever initial thoughts Fendros had on how to approach the situation with Llarasa were interrupted with the arrival of Meesei and the rest of the pack.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't find you." Sabine said guiltily, raising her arms to return Meesei's hug. She was surprised that Meesei would act in such a way. She had expected her to be angry.

Janius made his way to the door with everyone else. He looked relieved, but had a curious eyebrow raised. "What happened, Sabine? We looked for you all over the Talos District."

"Talos District? Was that the one I didn't recognise?" Sabine asked.

"I'm sorry, what exactly happened?" Fendros had a hand on his hip and another at his temple, "All this is confusing."

Sabine looked around briefly and silently until she realised that she was expected to speak. It didn't seem like anyone was angry, so her fear of that dissipated as she started. "Um, I was following behind you in the Arboretum. There was some bleeding crown mushrooms at the base of a tree. They don't normally grow above ground so I wanted to look at them. I took a sample and when I got up I couldn't see you. I thought you went to the next district, so I ran. The next district was the one with the temple with the dragon statue-"

"-The Temple of the One, yes, we tracked you there. Where did you go?" Janius interrupted.

In answering, Sabine simply continued her recount. "I tried to find you in that district, but I couldn't. I thought I lost you, so I just tried to get back to the inn. Then I got lost. I was in a big crowd and..." Sabine looked down and put a hand on her upper arm, "I didn't know where I was. I looked around and around, but I went in circles. I got upset, and then the Dunmer girl helped me. I didn't know that it was Fendros' sister. I'm sorry!"

"Wait, what?" Janius was following along until the last part. He looked up at Fendros, who was leaning on the doorframe with his arms crossed, deep in thought. Janius followed up with a question, "Where is she now?"

Sabine pointed to the door that Llarasa slammed. In their new silence, they could hear a muffled, intermittent sobbing emanating from it.