Garnet raised a hand, as if to silence and dismiss his apology. "There was nothing you could have done. I know this, because if you were able, you would have returned home immediately." a distant smile, "If I know nothing else about you, I know of your loyalty and determination."
The young queen moved away from where she stood near her throne, so that she could run her hand over the railing of the balcony. Her gaze went out over the kingdom; Spring had come already, and was slowly growing into Summer. It did not seem all that long ago that she'd returned home, after waking up disoriented in the fields outside of Dali.
"I'm afraid there isn't much that I know. Not more than anyone else does. Uncle Cid and his engineers have done a wonderful job with this new communication technology... but the face of the world has changed so much. Foreign places and people appearing from nowhere..."
Her chin dipped downward, her eyes skimming the rail. "As I hear it told, there was a flash of light before it all happened, and suddenly everything was displaced. These other-worlders, they call them People from the Sky. And many of Gaia's own have gone missing. I myself woke outside of Dali, and was told I had been missing for several weeks, but I do not remember anything that came to pass between the Light, and my waking."
Her gaze shifted once more, this time to Steiner. "You have been missing for a couple of months. And Beatrix, Freya... Amarant, Quina too... no one has heard from any of them. It seems as though they are nowhere to be found. Eiko had been found once, but she's vanished recently, and uncle Cid has sent out a search party for her on the outer continent."
The longer she talked, the more Garnet's mask of serenity slipped. She folded her hands, twisting her fingers together as if holding on to something invisible. She need not speak of her worry, for it was clear in her eyes, and tone of voice.
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The young queen moved away from where she stood near her throne, so that she could run her hand over the railing of the balcony. Her gaze went out over the kingdom; Spring had come already, and was slowly growing into Summer. It did not seem all that long ago that she'd returned home, after waking up disoriented in the fields outside of Dali.
"I'm afraid there isn't much that I know. Not more than anyone else does. Uncle Cid and his engineers have done a wonderful job with this new communication technology... but the face of the world has changed so much. Foreign places and people appearing from nowhere..."
Her chin dipped downward, her eyes skimming the rail. "As I hear it told, there was a flash of light before it all happened, and suddenly everything was displaced. These other-worlders, they call them People from the Sky. And many of Gaia's own have gone missing. I myself woke outside of Dali, and was told I had been missing for several weeks, but I do not remember anything that came to pass between the Light, and my waking."
Her gaze shifted once more, this time to Steiner. "You have been missing for a couple of months. And Beatrix, Freya... Amarant, Quina too... no one has heard from any of them. It seems as though they are nowhere to be found. Eiko had been found once, but she's vanished recently, and uncle Cid has sent out a search party for her on the outer continent."
The longer she talked, the more Garnet's mask of serenity slipped. She folded her hands, twisting her fingers together as if holding on to something invisible. She need not speak of her worry, for it was clear in her eyes, and tone of voice.