<blockquote><div><cite>Auralia wrote:</cite>"Will any of the rest of you accompany us to observe the state of the city? It would be best for us all to leave together."</div></blockquote><br/><br/>Chrrou's mind had still been on the prior conversation, his thoughts bouncing from the shreds of tentative strategy to the new revelations concerning the powers at work behind the winter-- and, as was dishearteningly suggested, unseasonable<span style="font-style: italic">summer</span>elsewhere.  Lingering in case any further discussion returned to the topic, at Auralia's gentle suggestion the mouse sighs and starts to rise, grudgingly stretching himself. "Alright," he nods. "I'll get Heshaar and Nocke. I'll only be a moment. ...Lin will be fine staying here, yes?"<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Alyssa wrote:</cite>"We should ask after Sashi on the way out as well; I believe she went out alone some time ago. I hope she hasn't run into any trouble."</div></blockquote><br/><br/>Halfway away toward his room, Chrrou stops incredulously in his tracks. "Did she... you mean nobody was going<span style="font-style: italic">with</span>her? Did... oooohh...!" The mouse squeakily scampers to his room to rouse his companions, and to hurriedly tell Lin of their impending departure as well.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">My thinking on Sashi's departure was that Chrrou was heavily distracted at the time, and any back-of-his-mind awareness that she was going would have been coupled with his assumption that <span style="font-style: italic">obviously</span> she'd be taking someone with her. Admittedly, it would've been better to mention that explicitly, rather than not saying anything and making it look like maybe it was OOC unawareness. I've been absent from here for around a week, maybe, but not THAT long. <img alt=":)" src="./images/smilies/smile.gif" title="Smile"/> It figures that we'd start updating again right when I stop paying attention, haha...</div></div></div>