It's like everything, all space and time had come to a halt. Apollo didn't know whether to laugh or cry or both, because his mind had completely refused to register the words his mother had just uttered. Marley was missing? Like what did that even mean?
When the god opened his lips to speak, a humming sound was all he could manage to produce.
"What do you mean she's missing?" Mrs Takahasi asked, she too was very confused. Hadn't her daughter died? How could she go missing? Was she stolen?
"We don't know," Leto responded, her eyes to the floor. Gosh, this was not how she wished to meet her co-parents in law. They were supposed to meet on a joyous occasion like their children's wedding day or their grandchild's birthday, but fate had other cruel plans.
Apollo quietly stood up, his eyes were round with doubt and dread and his eyebrows knitted together in frustration.
