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[usedrapidspin]

Yukari Takeba. Has anyone seen her? ... she's missing. That is, we travel together, and she hasn't turned up all day. I'd thought she might have been... displaced, like before, but I can't seem to find her contact information, for some reason. Also, I...

[ his typically serious (particularly moreso, at the moment) tone of voice takes an

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[ofmywill]

[ There are no exclamation marks big enough. He stops, and there's the sound of a sharp intake of breath before any actual words come across. Yukari...no.

No, she couldn't be. ]

...can you confirm they're hers?

[usedrapidspin]

I can, but even still, I recognize them. All of them, her whole team. Even Shadow.

[ seeing that Houndoom in there was pretty much the nail in the coffin, for him. ]

[ofmywill]

...hn.

[ That's something, alright- for all of them to go to him must have meant they were close. He's quiet for awhile again. ]

Guess she's gone.

[usedrapidspin]

She can't be.

[ she can and she is, he already figured it out hours ago, but it's easier to put up a fight about it. ]

[ofmywill]

Why not?

[usedrapidspin]

Because, she... because it doesn't make any sense. How can someone just stop existing? Not just them, but their contact information and everything. I can't even find her belongings.

[ofmywill]

Hm...maybe they went, too.

[usedrapidspin]

Even the things she didn't have on her person?

[ofmywill]

Could be. Or they disappeared.

[usedrapidspin]

At least whatever it is that causes this had the decency to leave her Pokemon unaffected.

[ --pause. has a thought! ]

I can't imagine she could have planned ahead like this and put them all in my PC, though.

[ofmywill]

No. She's smart, but...

[ He trails off. She couldn't have known- not quickly enough. Minato makes a mildly frustrated noise. ]

[usedrapidspin]

[ they can have a frustration duet, Suzaku joining in with a sigh. ]

But she couldn't have known. Unless it was something that happened--at the last minute.

[ofmywill]

Right.

...so she's gone. [ ... ] Sorry.

[usedrapidspin]

Don't apologize. It's not anything anyone has any control over.

[ ... ]

Was she a friend of yours?

[ofmywill]

My closest.

[usedrapidspin]

I...

[ pause. he hadn't known many, if any, of Yukari's friends, and this makes it so clear that there are others just as affected, if not moreso. it just gets worse and worse. ]

I'm sorry.