Altar of Twilight There is no reconciliation

my only post here, to catch her up <3

Maia wouldn’t find the scene until a day or two later. Both Chickadee and Ani were missing; the latter girl Maia worried about more but Chickadee hadn’t told her she was leaving. Why hadn’t she told her?

Neither boded well and Maia was quietly frantic, combing the areas nearby without feeling able to venture too far. It was a frustratingly familiar feeling. Ani wouldn’t have left without saying anything. Neither would Chickadee. Not if they had left of their own choosing - and she knew they hadn’t left together. Ani had disappeared first.

Chickadee’s trail was not easy to follow, but when she’d managed to catch a trace of it, it wasn’t long before the scent of old blood and death drew Maia in. A part of her hesitated with the horror of it, another had to know, and it felt terrible to be relieved when it clearly wasn’t her daughter who lay there.

But Chickadee had been here, and she’d been afraid. Maia stared at the slashes on the dead woman’s body and felt the panic settle in, shortening her breath and bringing tears to her eyes. No. Please, no….. CHICKADEE!?. Baby, please, where are you?!

If whatever did this had chased her, or had taken her. Maia wasn’t thinking nearly clearly enough to note there wasn’t any of her daughter’s blood here. She continued her frantic search, sobbing, calling for her daughter until her voice couldn’t any longer. Calling for Ani. Calling for anyone.

She wouldn’t find them. And eventually she would return to @Eljay, and to her boys, and tell them what she’d found. But she wouldn’t stop looking. And she refused to believe the worst. Her heart couldn’t take it.