Legacies of light

Arc 5.02

Φ Jumping off Willow the 2nd I look at everyone reuniting and say, “How have you all been.” When the villagers hear what I say, they knock me across the head. “What was that for?”

“You guys said you would be back in a little while; You were gone for over four months! Do you have any idea how worried we were? We thought something had gone wrong. We were days away from sending a rescue party after you?”

“Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to extend the rescue mission.”

While holding me by my collar, one of them says, “You couldn’t send anyone back to tell us at all.”

“There were some issues with doing that, and I knew that Pine wouldn’t let you guys leave because you would have had no way of reaching us. So please, can we stop this.”

“Orb, it sounds like you’re just passing by our anxiety over the last four months. But don’t worry, we will repay you every last bit.”

Shit, I am so sleep-derived that I don’t have the energy to think of how I upset them; someone please get me out of t