[ Action in Fum // Slightly Backdated ]

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[Neither Raine nor Laguna are particularly inclined to sleep in very often, but no matter how much of an early riser you are, small children always seem to beat you out, like they have a sixth sense for it and want the chance to pounce you beneath the covers before you can wake yourself. Laguna finds himself treated to one such occasion, opening one eye to examine the weight pressing on his left arm and finding that Slai has crawled into bed between the two of them. He carefully rolls over onto his side to allow her more room, not wanting to jostle Raine. She needs all the sleep she can get. He rubs the sleep from his eyes, putting a hand against Slai's shoulder.]

Hey there, sweetie. Bad dreams?

[She shakes her head.] I can't find Elle.

You what? [He checks the clock. Still early, much too early for Ellone to have gotten up of her own accord.] Maybe she just couldn't sleep. She might be downstairs. We can go find her together.

She's not anywhere. I looked all over the house an' looked out at the yard.

[Laguna frowned. He got the foreboding sense that this might be the start of another Wild Elle Chase.]

We'll find her. She can't be far.