At first she was too relieved to no longer be staring death by homicidal professor in the face to wonder where Odette had taken them. Then she pulled herself off the ground and noticed that Odette wasn't there.
Then she noticed that she had no flipping clue where she was.
"On a less cheerful note, her children are missing. As of the volcanoes."
"Hurin and Huor." She sends mental images. "They're sixteen and fourteen respectively."
She nods and closes her eyes.
After a few minutes, she frowns.
About ten minutes after that, her forehead creases.
Half an hour in she bites her lip and starts to look really worried.
Lady Hareth is very studiously calm.
"I can't find them," she finally says, opening her eyes. She--is not panicking, she's not, that wouldn't help anything.
"Okay. Does that mean they're probably dead?" Very calm.
"Oh."
"What is it? Typically."
"They...shouldn't be farther than that. I guess if they were moving as fast as they can."
"Thank you."
She doesn't stand up for a minute. When she does, though, she does it steadily.
Odette really wants to punch a wall into tiny pieces and then go rip something evil a new one but instead she does not do that. "I'm sorry," she says instead, hating how helpless she feels.
"It's all right. It hadn't even occurred to me magic might be able to help. We always knew we were raising sons for the war."
"Best of skill and fortune in establishing the city."
"Yeah."
And then because she still doesn't have her own guest room she goes to her sister's with her and cries a lot on her shoulder and--
Celegorm. Help.
I don't know--Lady Hareth's sons vanished during the battle and I can't find them or their bodies and they didn't have poison on them--
It's still a possible explanation. Just maybe not the only one - where were they lost -
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