In the Severe Winter weather, I broke out in a cold sweat. Maybe I really was the kind of guy trouble clung to. That trait had been carved deep into my fate: even if I occasionally spent a day at home playing with the kids, I would still run into an apocalypse. I was probably the sort of unlucky bastard people meant when they said that.
"Ding Dang, check again. Maybe the leaf was buried too far away, or maybe you're looking in the wrong place. This yard is full of your power, so the connection between you and the leaf could be getting disrupted," I said hurriedly, then turned to Anweina. "Mediva is missing too? When did she disappear?"
"I haven't seen her since yesterday noon." Anweina floated lightly in midair, snowflakes passing directly through her body before falling to the ground. She had clearly entered a fully spectral state. "I thought she had gone up into the sky to practice flying. Mediva's body is growing too quickly, so she had to start learning how to fly early. She's different from a normal crow, so she has to figure out her own way of flying. She only recently learned how to flap her wings, and these past few days she's often flown out by herself to play. But she's normally very careful and always goes behind clouds where humans can't see her... Ah, never mind that. What matters is that she didn't come home last night! I can't feel any lingering energy from her in the nest, and she didn't come to say good morning to me either!"
"Could these two things be connected?" My sister had already learned that Mediva had not returned all night, and now she had run into Ding Dang, who was frantically searching everywhere