The emergency meeting convened in our home's communication chamber within the hour. Rose and Cecilia had been pulled away from their respective guild administration duties, while magical holograms flickered to life as Rachel and Reika joined us from their distant locations.
"This better be genuinely urgent," Rachel said through the holographic projection, though her concern was evident despite the slight delay in transmission. "I'm in the middle of purifying a particularly stubborn miasma contamination that's been resisting conventional methods."
"It is," Seraphina replied with uncharacteristic terseness, her ice-blue eyes reflecting stress that went deeper than simple professional concern. "Ren has been missing for three days."
