The Apartment Above the Photo Hut - Wednesday Afternoon

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It had been a week since Prompto had vanished and Liz had been trying to stay focused, searching the island desperately as best she could to no avail.

The only thing that was keeping her hopeful that Prompto hadn’t ended up going back to Insomnia was that Ignis was still there and between him and Nell, she was grateful for their help with prepared meals so she had been able to focus on looking after Noctra as well as trying to do some work with the store, even though she hadn’t been able to concentrate on any work.

At the moment Noctra was sleeping, she had been fussy this morning and she had been up all night with her, before finally getting her to settle. As she waited for Noctra to wait, she repeatedly checked her phone just in case there was a message or a phone call from Prompto somehow, despite it being over a week now but she had to keep checking.

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Liz tried to not get her hopes up at that, even though it was hard, "oh, what did you find ... um come in please, did you want me to get you anything to drink or eat?" she stepped back to let Nell through.

[mylandmyrules]

"Just a chair would be great," Nell said, "I'm still feeling a bit shaky, but I wanted to come see you."

She held a hand up. "We didn't find them, but there is something out in the woods - not far from the onsen. Like a kind of magical barrier. I couldn't get around or under or through it."

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“Of course ,” Liz said, rather worried at that as she went to get a chair for Nell to sit on, “do you … do you think that might be where they are?” she hesitated, trying to not get her hopes up, “that that’s why we haven’t been able to reach them because of the barrier?”

[mylandmyrules]

Nell nodded. "Like I said, it might be nothing and I can't swear it hasn't been there all along, but I've never felt anything like it on the island before."

She sighed. "So honestly, we still don't really know anything for sure, but at least it's something to look into which is more than we had before."

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Liz bit her lip at that but nodded, "at least it might give us an idea to where we could narrow our searching?" she said softly, "I haven't had any luck so far and it sounds like more people have gone missing according to radio," she said worriedly.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell nodded. "Which also is kind of reassuring because at least it makes it far less likely that they got taken back to Eos. And there are a lot of people here to help figure out what to do."

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Liz nodded at that, "it's definitely the best news we've had since everything happened," she said softly, "I just ...I'm really worried about them, if they've really been in Fandom this whole time ... " her voice trailed off uncertainly.

[mylandmyrules]

"I know," Nell said, "But remember there have been other times when people were trapped in odd places here and those turned out okay. Prompto and Gladio are tough and we need to be strong for them. They'll need us to be strong when they get back."

[flamesburned]

Liz bit her lip but nodded, she knew there wasn't much they could do until they had a definitive location and could go and rescue them, "at least we have more news than we did a week ago," she said softly.

[mylandmyrules]

"We do," Nell said firmly. "And it's hopeful news."

[flamesburned]

Liz nodded, “I guess we just have to try and stay focused and wait, until we know for sure and can rescue them,” she said quietly, “I just hope we can find them soon,”

[mylandmyrules]

"I do too," Nell said quietly. "I... I know it's not the same, but... I miss him. I, we were just starting -"

She shook her head. "Anyway, we'll figure this out. I'm sure of it."