Barrow Fields tessellate

He asked her the same question all the others had, and she sighed, shaking her head after a moment of thought. What could he do that she hadn't done? If he had not seen him in his travels--which had been extensive, to her knowledge--then it was unlikely he had anything else to offer her. Not to slight Komodo, but it seemed that Mou had just simply disappeared.

"It's okay," the girl replied, with a disheartened shrug of her shoulders. "Just--if he happens to be on the island, when you get back. . .can you tell him I'm looking for him--and that I'm really mad at him for leaving without telling me?" The second question came like a barb, a selfish addendum to the first. Maegi had tried so far to keep her emotions out of this search, but with things looking so hopeless, her level of reservedness had dipped far below what it normally was.