Farewell

Their next stop was a layer that seeped into the mist.

Xena no longer talked as much after what happened to the siblings. She became more silent, more lost in her thoughts, more distant.

Everyone was on edge.

Kareen spend most of her time sleeping as if that could somehow take her away from reality and the dreadful circumstances. She did not speak even a single word. Her face would remain white most of the time,

As for Lilith, she wasn't holding much better either.

Her spheroid would remain last, a little too far from the rest of the convoy. It was as if she was lost in her own head too much to make much attention. She stopped eating, drinking, or doing anything but mechanically follow the rest of them.

Taehyuk… probably had it worst.

By this time, he realised he won't be going back to his daughter so easily. The more they travelled, the more his chances were reduced.