[Ah, he'd thought as much. The fear had been there, and they all knew it; without any proof or memories, however, it became more of a nebulous possibility that no one really wanted to address directly just in case one of them HADN'T been considering it before. The end result was that it was in the back of everyone's minds, yet none of them wanted to be the first to bring it up.

He understands that.]

I don't know. We don't know, without any memories of what happened over the weekend. He could be dead, or he could be kidnapped. There's no way for us to know for sure.

[Then his voice softens.]

And that just makes it worse.