Eiji shakes his head. Honestly, he just wants to withdraw into himself, away from everyone. But Alfreed needs him, and he can't just disappear.

The day of her death replays in his memories, the way it always does. The school had become a makeshift hospital, helping care for them until they could safely be evacuated to the actual hospital in the capital. She had been crying, but too dehydrated for any tears to form.

"She...she was hungry. And thirsty, when it happened. I think she might have come here, looking for food?"

It makes sense, right? And maybe she'd seen Eiji and run away because she thought he'd died, just like he thought she had.