Bearclaw Valley we'd be shaking like a leaf with every god-given night

Laurel hadn't noticed Lucas' absence over the past days. Well, she had noticed, but she figured that Xan was just off hogging his time, or whatever, or that he was adventuring and she was just missing him each time. But after realising that his scent was fading and that none of the usual suspects had any clue where he was, Laurel was beginning to dread something bad might have happened to him. He was growing older and more self-sufficient, surely, but not so much that she thought he was safe on his own yet.

When Indra came towards Laurel panic was just about setting in with the realisation that fuck, he was gone. She looked up at Indra with a distracted panicked look on his face -- a rare look on the usually determined and certain Laurel -- and called out to her sister: "Indra -- Lucas is gone!" To Laurel, it was the last straw at the moment. Her pups had made her life slightly happier but now they were growing up and Xan was still being a feelingless dick. Laurel was suffocating and she wanted out, had for a while, but knew she could not abandon her pups. But now Lucas was gone, too.

"We gotta find him!" Laurel instantly searched for whatever faint scents of Lucas she could find and started tracking it to the borders, regardless of what Indra would do.