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[thaumatophage]

Who: The Baker Ranch Gang
What: Papa Bear is gone
When: Shortly after the dreamscape event
Where: Baker Ranch
Warning(s):I'm gonna slap an "abandonment issues/daddy issues" right here on top because that's a given.

She can't find him. Gods, she can't find Mr. Rambo - John - and she's looked everywhere, even run up to the Temple in the cold to see if he'd be at Serranai's altar instead of how he preferred to worship her. And...he's not there. Nobody's seen him...and it's not like him to disappear like that, not for this long, not without even leaving a note.

And she knows he's gone.

She runs to ask Mr. Salazar for a temporary (temporary, it's gotta be temporary!) leave from the farm so she can tend to the ranch in Rambo's absence, and it's here she can be found, doing the best she can and busier than a one-armed paper hanger and twice as harried. If she's working...if she's working, she doesn't have to think about how much this hurts.

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[hate_gettin_older]

Last time he thought he might run into trouble, John left a note. This time ... nothing.

Edgar wrangles together a few people to do a concerted search, including people that he knows know to look for the white wolf-shape too, just in case something's gone wrong with that and John can't get back out of it. He considers going up to the temple to try pleading with the goddesses; he doesn't, because the way he feels, it's going to turn into yelling at them and punching things, and that's not going to help.

(He does punch a hay bale in the barn a couple of times. It doesn't help either. The scrapes on his knuckles heal fast, though.)

He sits with Co and Bao when he can, holds them, gives them a few extra treats, tries to say comforting things. He isn't sure it's working.

He makes sure there's food on the table every breakfast and dinner time, because John isn't here to do it.