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Someday Part II The discovery
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Gael smiled as the morning sun tickled her face rousing her from her slumber. It was early, but Gael was a morning person. She was already happy and peppy, especially so since she and her family had managed to live here undetected for so long. She was really beginning to like it here. The sky rained more often than it shined and yet it had started to grow on her. Gael grinned, an idea forming in her head. It’s a beautiful day and we should start out the day in good spirits. I’ll make everyone breakfast. I haven’t done anything nice for Rey lately.
Gael started off down the hallway but before she reached the stairs she couldn’t quite resist a quick peek into her sister’s room. She liked the way people looked while they were sleeping so at peace free from the worries and hassles of daily life. As she peered around the doorframe, her eyes met her sister’s empty bed so she went ahead and pushed open the door a bit farther trying to see if she had maybe fallen out or if she had already risen. Gael quickly began to realize that there was no one in the room. She shrugged it off at first thinking that perhaps Rey had simply woken and gone down for breakfast. She found no one was up but herself. She started to search the house frantically. After an hour of unproductive search, she worked her way back up to her grandparents’ room. She fell to her knees at the side of the bed and sobbed, “Rey’s gone grandpa. She’s gone and I can’t find her.”
Bannock awoke to his granddaughter’s crys. He felt his wife, Calpurnia, stir beside him. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes soon discerning the crumpled form on the floor. “Sugar baby, what’s wrong?” Gael was in his arms before the words left his mouth.
“She… She’s gone…” Gael choked burying her face in her hands.
Bannock’s entire body went cold. He held his granddaughter out from him to meet her eyes. “Who is gone?”
“Reynata.”
“What?!” Calpurnia’s voice echoed in his ears as he ran for Rey’s room.
He threw the door wide open. He scanned the room in a rush. Nothing. No note. Not even a sign of struggle. What was that girl thinking? He took off to the kitchen looking for some sign that she could’ve left that would tell them she was all right. It wasn’t like Rey to play games. She was and always had been too serious. He stopped in the middle of the living room breathing heavily. He was sure this kind of shock wasn’t good for him or his wife.
“Bannock.” Calpurnia spoke quietly. Her voice came from behind. He turned to meet her. “She’s gone, Ban and I don’t think we are bringing her back this time.” She held out a crumpled piece of paper. He stared at it for an eternity before he asked. “What does it say?” He didn’t want to read it.
His wife spoke gently, “She says she’s sorry for leaving us but she has to do something by herself to make up for things she’s done. She thinks we will be safer without her.” She paused. “We knew it was only a matter of time.”
“That doesn’t make it any easier.”
“She’ll be alright.”
“Which? Reynata or her sister? I don’t think Gael will be all right.”
Cally laid her hand on his wrist. “She’ll recover given time. It isn’t like her sister is dead and gone forever.”
“But she could be. We don’t really know what made her decide to leave. Maybe we have been compromised and she just found out about it before we did and tried to lead the brutes away from us.”
She hugged him. “I have faith in out granddaughter. This is something she must need to do alone. If we can find a way to send her any help along the way we should.”
“You’re right.”
“I know. I always am.”
He smiled weakly. She really was and he had always loved that about her.
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