thestormishere | ☈ strike # 20 (action / voice)

[ Lightning's actually not much of a morning person. Military girl or not, on most days it's usually the sun that beats her up- especially once the daylight hours start lengthening a little, and she has no real obligations except to get an early start on going out to run or something...

This time, though... something's been bothering her all night, and sleep in general hasn't come easy at all. It's still mostly dark when she tumbles out of her room, on edge because even if she doesn't yet recognize the source something is wrong--

It doesn't take her long to figure out why, that her current family in Luceti number has abruptly dropped, four total to three instead. After all, she's been around plenty long enough to know the signs that someone has left, even if she's never experienced it firsthand.

In this case, it's an empty bedroom- the only sign that it's ever been lived in at all the color of the walls and several of the dog's things left behind.

And to say that the woman's upset is like saying water is wet, or really, that Luceti is unfair. Rather than alerting anyone else, however, there's only a distinct SLAM of the front door as the pink-haired l'Cie flees the scene, taking Baldr with her - even now she's not cruel enough to make the animal think two of his people have left him.

Whether her housemates choose to go after her immediately or discuss amongst themselves first or whatever, regardless, eventually there's brief audio message that gets thrown out to the winds of the journals, delivered in a voice that's deceptively flat. Considering the general sentiment behind such a common type of report here, however, she's probably not fooling even those who don't know her personally. ]

Hope Estheim's gone home.

[ ... Someone just try and be smart with her about the teen's name right now. She's not in the mood. ]

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[ Aerith is a morning person, and even still, as it's mostly dark, she's only just snapped out of her sleepy but automatic ritual, getting ready to check on the flower shop, at the slam of a door.

Considering neither Light nor Zack are morning people, that leaves Hope--although she didn't think he woke up this early, and where would he be going in such a hurry?--or--an intruder? It's not completely unheard of in Luceti. It's concerning enough that she decides to check rooms, and Hope's is top on the list to see if something upset him.

...It's so empty.

She stands in the doorway for a moment, a frown curling her lips, before she heads out the front door. No need to check the other rooms. She's pretty sure she knows who ran out in such a hurry, and her name gets called out to the cool morning air: ]

Light?

I'd only talked to Hope a couple times but I knew that he was a good guy. Thanks for letting us know.

[Despite not being a morning person in the slightest (especially since he kind of works at night) it probably won't take long for him to be awake after Lightning leaves, whether due to the noise or because Aerith prodded him awake to share the news. And he'd have liked to follow her, but he knows that sometimes you really do want to be left alone.

Once the message is on the journal system, though, he isn't going to let it go by without a response. He's worried.]

...Light?

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