The Disappearing Light

"..I suppose I am." Sam smiled to himself, though he hardly considered his arrangement with Nate him 'reaching out'. The other man had approached him and been truthfully very inappropriate, though that seemed to have cooled down in the last while. Nate had said it was purely because they were both men, he had probably found someone else to kiss. He noted the unguarded, genuine reaction Jigano had to Rory's name. Well, that confirmed some suspicions he had, but it wasn't time to discuss romantic gossip. Not when his friend looked so serious and sad. He knew neither Amalia or Caiside well, but the news of Guildmembers going missing was distressing nonetheless. Sam had always been unlikely to go exploring in the woods by himself but he found himself almost glad for his own cowardice. "So...so are you planning to rescue them? Can they be rescued..? Do we know if they're alive?" At the end of this flurry of questions he passed Jigano up a teacup, filled to the brim with a hot and sweet tea, something designed to be calming. It was unlikely to work he supposed, but he didn't know what else to do in the face of this emergency. Samuel He took a step but then felt tired He said, I'll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn't a child