[He doesn't respond at first, bowing his head to think on that for a moment. The timing was certainly right.]

...I have always been a little tense around this time of year. This isn't the first time Luke has disappeared in the summer... and Dist disappeared around this time as well.

[It was strange to think that was nearly two years ago now. And unlike Luke, Dist never returned to Luceti -- much like a number of his other friends who have left.]

[It's hard not to be a little tense, knowing that this is the last place Ion would ever see any of them again.]