Bearclaw Valley ah, how McDonald's of you

Piper didn't like the answer that was provided for her. In fact, it made her sting with a strange emotion – one she could not have named on her own. There was a bubbling mixture of rage and frustration that was clawing away at her insides, attempting to force its way out. Instead of allowing it to take control, the Redleaf girl only managed a snort of disdain and turned her attention away from Indra.

“Then someone had to have taken him,” Piper remarked quietly, but the stare that was fixed on her aunt was unrelenting.

If it wasn't like Lucas to just leave and never come back, there had to be another reason for his disappearance. Piper wasn't certain which was better; that her brother might have simply vanished on his own accord, or that someone could be cruel enough to take him. Though Indra attempted to normalize the incident, Piper couldn't swallow the pill she was being fed. Her lip curled with contempt before she shook her skull.

“I don't accept that. That's not the way my world is.”