[ and that's why she feels awful about this. lucy being in sigyn like her directly puts her under susan's care, more so than both her brothers. perhaps that's why she both expected and dreaded his answer.

she shakes her head again, tries to adopt a neutral expression. she hoped to find lucy before alerting ed and peter, wanting not to worry them also, but-- ] I haven't seen her since yesterday. [ and because someone's bound to bring it up: ] And she's not answering any of my calls.

[ pause. ] Do you think-- [ another shake of her head. ] Perhaps I'm just worrying overmuch.