@flamebased
Cucumber had woken alone, a fact which was becoming more frightening by the second. No matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find Nautilus. Carrot's absence was expected- he'd split off from the group earlier. What was really worrying was that Almond had vanished. Alone, in a strange and enormous city, he sat down on the sidewalk and began to cry. It wasn't so much that he intended to, but more that there was only so much stress he could handle.
She could be anywhere, after all. He could be anywhere. For about the thousandth time since the Dreamsider had been sent on this stupid, stupid quest, he wished he'd never agreed. Hearing movement behind him, Cucumber froze for a moment, curling miserably into himself. "Please go away." Oracle save him from well-meaning adults who couldn't understand.