[Hijikata sounds fairly exhausted and tense, since he has prioritized "Looking for Souji" over "Eating and Sleeping"]
...Now that the fire situation is more or less under control:
Everyone is explicitly forbidden to mention that week ever again. No exceptions, and offenders will be put to the sword.
I...fell asleep in the mountains for a couple of hours, and there was this picture on me when I woke up. Who is she? She looks...familiar.
If anyone has any idea where Souji might be, alive or dead, tell me immediately. That's all.
[click]
[Private to Souji | Difficult to Hack | Text]
In a brief instant,
All things grow, fade, and shatter;
Don't let it grieve you.
I had better find you, and you'd better be alive.
You are alive. I won't believe otherwise.
[/Private]
[ooc: The tuberculosis got his mom when he was like...three or four, depending which system of age reckoning you're using. I don't think he's likely to recognize the face at first.]