Lydia was working on stopping her tears, not wanting to put that burden on him, after all he'd already been through on her behalf, and she swallowed them back in an attempt to find her voice.

"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner," she said softly. "I've been looking. I tried a locator spell, but...I couldn't get more exact than the neighborhood, and he..." That was the night, she was pretty sure, and her stomach twisted again, thinking about it. She forced it down. "You were gone already, when I found where you'd been."