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head.”
    “Which means if she wants the child to be returned to other humans, she’ll need us to deliver Emily into a village. She can’t do it herself,” Daniel concluded.
    “Exactly,” Specca replied with a nod. “There may be a human village up ahead, but Luna, as crazy as she can be, wouldn’t dare go near it with a human child in her custody. She would be asking to be killed.”
    “Then where would she have gone?” Daniel asked looking at the map carefully. “If she wouldn’t go for the village she could have gone off in any direction, if she even came this way to begin with.”
    “This is bad,” Alyssa said shaking her head. “She could be anywhere. And I hate to point this out, but there’s no telling if they’re even still alive. It’s not safe out here for a lost, blind child and a wandering idiot.”
    The group then looked ahead to where they saw Falla and Triska sitting on the front seat, the two looking around at the sight of fields of grass and trees while the caravan was stopped at the top of a hill. The sky above was starting to turn dark with stars beginning to be seen as the day was coming to an end, with Falla’s anxieties growing by the minute as the butterfly girl held her arms around herself while whimpering with distress.
    “Oh god, I need to find her! I need to find her!”
    “Calm down, Falla, we’ll-” Triska started before Falla grabbed and shook the teen by the shoulders with frustration.
    “Don’t tell me to calm down! You don’t know my sister like I do, she can’t live without me! She could be hurt or dead right now, how can I calm down?” She shook Triska bout then looked around again while grabbing hold of her hair, her breathing picking up as Triska regained herself and watched the girl with surprise.
    “Luna can’t survive without me for this long! Oh god, she might eat her own hand if I’m not there to feed her!” Falla wailed before choking back her sobs.
    Triska watched her worriedly for a moment before slowly setting the reins for Lucky down and moving back into the cabin. The group watched as Falla muttered something to herself while looking around in a panic as Triska came over and sat by them.
    “Okay,” Triska cautioned. “She’s freaking out now. What are we going to do?”
    “She’s really troubled by her sister’s disappearance,” Specca commented curiously.
    “I guess she does have a small heart after all, but don’t tell her I said that,” Alyssa mentioned while looking down to the map.
    “We want to help her,” Daniel said worriedly. “But we don’t know where to begin looking at this point. Luna could be anywhere out there, we have no way of finding her.”
    “Well what are we going to do then?” Triska asked. “We can’t search all day and night like this, we have places we need to be too.”
    “We need help finding them, we can’t do this alone,” Specca reasoned.
    Alyssa glanced around at the map then shook her head slowly.
    “We could go ask the village of Eston for help,” she mentioned. “But they’re not going to want to save Luna. In fact, if they find out Luna is even with Emily they’ll kill her. Actually, when they see that most of us are monsters they may try to kill us.”
    “We can’t send the village out there after Emily,” Daniel countered. “They may find her, but if they do they’ll find Luna with her and kill her. We can’t ask humans to help with this.”
    “Well that leaves just us,” Triska pointed out. “And again, we can’t keep doing this. We have to meet up with Kroanette near Eston and then go see her mother, not to mention we have a lot of other monsters to meet.”
    The group looked over to seeing Falla now standing on the seat as she desperately scanned the surroundings for any sign of her sister.
    “We can’t just tell Falla we’re quitting though,” Specca said worriedly. “And we can’t leave Luna and Emily out there like this. What are we going to do?”
    Alyssa drummed