A small smile made its way onto Seb's face. The concern these two students were showing was very touching and it brightened his spirits just a little. "I'm doing okay." So long as he didn't think about it too much and kept busy.

He shoved his hands into his pockets and rocked back and forth on the heels of his feet. Minnie's question caused him to wince a little. "Some of the Centaurs reported seeing her in the forest." Seb was hoping that they got to her before anything else did, because he had no idea how he was going to explain to his daughter and her husband that he'd lost their dog. It was bad enough that he'd lost Millie.

And then Oakey did one of the nicest things he'd ever seen and Seb took his hands out of his pockets and held them up. "You don't have to do that Oakey. Wasn't it a gift for a friend of yours?"