[Anise had known the Colonel for a really long time, and so she knew that when he stopped making jokes about something, it was really bad.]
[Still, she couldn't figure out what that 'really bad' thing could be. It hadn't really hit her yet that people here could just leave. Sure, maybe Guy had done it, but he was Guy! He left to do stuff for Malkuth all the time back home, so him being gone here didn't really make a difference. Luke was more of a permanent fixture, so it was harder to imagine him being gone.]
[The worst she can imagine is that he's been abducted for some bad mission by the Malnosso. Yeah, that had to be it!]
Did he get taken by the scary robots? We have to go save him!
[Action August 9th?]
[Still, she couldn't figure out what that 'really bad' thing could be. It hadn't really hit her yet that people here could just leave. Sure, maybe Guy had done it, but he was Guy! He left to do stuff for Malkuth all the time back home, so him being gone here didn't really make a difference. Luke was more of a permanent fixture, so it was harder to imagine him being gone.]
[The worst she can imagine is that he's been abducted for some bad mission by the Malnosso. Yeah, that had to be it!]
Did he get taken by the scary robots? We have to go save him!