Still alone

Hi Ursula — what happened to Sean? Where did you leave him? Why are you alone today? The question hung in the cold air of the hide, half serious, half desperate. She glided in without answering — because of course she did — and yet her presence told me more than I wanted to know. Sean was gone. Not just absent for a session, not just late — gone, in a way that felt heavy and unresolved. And Ursula herself had begun to move differently, appearing in glimpses, retreating before I could fully read her, as though something was weighing on her that she couldn't shake. I watched her carefully, searching for clues in every movement. Something was wrong. I could feel it. And no matter how hard I tried, I could not talk myself out of the worry that had quietly taken root inside the hide alongside me.