[Kaoru listens along in a silence that still manages to convey a vague air of upset, even without any expression being very clear in the dark.]

Even if that's so, I feel terrible to have done such a thing... We'll have to find them quickly, then. I can only imagine how worried they must be for you, vanishing so suddenly like that.

[Standing a little at last, Kaoru glances out over the edge of the roof, brow furrowed.]

Were you intending to go anywhere in specific with them?