Hello? where is everyone?

“What!’ she yelped in surprise, before she got control of herself, and flushed in embarrassment. Hannibal was gone? Surely she didn’t mean he was dead. “The land near this place opened up in the earthquake, perhaps he fell in also. It’s such a rabbit hole down there it’s possible for us to never cross paths” she said, not sure if she believed it, but needing something to hope for, and sharing that hope with the almost-stranger.

“We’ve met before, but it was briefly and long ago” she admitted, remembering that Deathbelle had asked if she knew her. “I don’t know what to do now, I was going to be his healer” she explained, weary exasperation in her tones. She felt she was destined to never find a home.