"Well, who would be likely to know where she's been? Danny maybe...?"

"Danny, Allison, Jackson, maybe. I asked Danny yesterday but he said he hasn't been talking to her much since the breakup, except when Allison would convince them all to sit together."

"Well, we can ask Allison and Jackson, I guess." She glances around. "And theoretically I should get to class. Seriously, though, I'm worried, this is worrying, if you think of a use for me I am at your disposal for missing-friend-related tasks."

"I'll ask them. You go to class, if I still don't have any news by lunch, I'll find you."

"All right. Good luck."

And off to class she goes.

"Good morning. Everything alright?"

"My nascent archrival in the field of chemistry hasn't been to class in a while, it's a little worrying."

"Sorry, I'm not up on the latest chem politics. You're worried about someone?"

"Yeah. Lydia."

"It's probably some kind of prank."

The teacher interrupts.

"I hope the two of you have something to say about the subject matter?"

Solvei glances up and says, "Personally I find it fascinating that Antigone is chronologically the last of the Oedipus plays but was written first. Reading them in publication order, I felt a bit like a prophet myself - going into the start of Oedipus Rex, I know pretty much exactly how all these people are going to destroy their own and each other's lives, but I can yell at the book all I want and they're still going to do it."

"Isn't that kind of arrogant? Other people's lives are their own business. I know I wouldn't want anyone looking at my family and judging us."

"I wouldn't either, believe me. But - I apologize, this gets a little personal for me. My parents died when I was a kid. If somebody'd known it was going to happen ahead of time, I'd have wanted them to do something. And not the way prophets in ancient Greek plays do things. If I started getting actual real-life prophecies of doom, I wouldn't waste a second judging anybody involved, I would proceed straight to finding a way to stop them from murdering each other. It'd feel like my responsibility, at that point, to find a better path than the one Fate was offering."

"Maybe when it escalates to murder, but how many family issues really end in that? I think the point of having the three plays together is to show how rooted this is in the way the Greeks saw family. It's not really about the murder. That's just a piece of it."

"Mr. Daehler, what about you? Do you agree with Mr. Lahey about the importance of keeping family business within the family? Maybe the danger Oedipus and Antigone warn us of with their deaths is letting mortal law cross into the home, where divine law should rule."

"Isaac and I disagree about family. I think that mortal law should step in when morality and divine law fails. As they do for Oedipus. Antigone warns us not to let mortal law go too far, but Oedipus, in both his plays, warns about not letting it go far enough."

Solvei, uncharacteristically, doesn't jump in.

The teacher doesn't seem to know what to say to that.

So she breezes past it, talking about Oedipus and Antigone as the beginning and the end of each others' stories.

Class ends, the bell rings.

Literature Enemy glides through the crowd, managing not to bump into anyone as he rushes out of the room.

Solvei proceeds to Econ in no particular hurry.

Matt follows.

"You were saying about, Lydia Martin? Would you feel better if I helped you look into it?"

"I'm not totally sure there's even an emergency yet, but yeah, maybe. Any ideas? Where would you look for a missing Lydia?"

"...I'm not sure. The library, the mall- she studies and she shops, that's the extent of my knowledge about Lydia Martin. I'll ask Allison when I see her, they're pretty good friends."

"Thanks, I appreciate it."