The Weight of Silence

"We're still unable to detect them."

Shizune failed to use her sensory perception, it didn't work. She had the idea that they were either unconscious or that someone was deliberately trying to hide them. Everyone in the room was trying their best to find everyone, but... They all failed, miserably.

As if...they were erased from existence?

'How could they disappeared?'

There was an eerie tension in the comms' silence. She repetitively tapped her fingers against the tabletop and the rhythm intertwined together with her thoughts.

Although the first reports had been disjointed and based on rumors, everyone agreed that they were no longer there. disappeared into thin air. Nothing but emptiness, no battle, no trace of a fight.