Northstar Vale You Know That I Can't Help Myself

He set out to find Hotaru. The other two were accounted for, but as it were, she had come up missing around the same time the young woman had. An unnerving feeling crawled in his stomach and he made haste in keeping his nose to the ground. She couldn't have gotten far. Of course, that seemed to be a ludicrous thought when it were considered how often the wolves of the empire were running after and recovering pups from who knows where. 

 After quite some time his efforts would bare fruit and he found the small girl. Desolate. His eyes looked over her frame and she reminded him much of Reiko in her final days. There was a similar brokenness to her. There was a similar feeling of heartbreak in his own chest.

 "Hotaru..." He whispered her name gently and sat down. Something had happened--things kept happening. He was supposed to protect them and as it turned out he was absolute shit at the job he had taken.