Utena felt a lot more comfortable when the woman finally smiled at her. If she had been talking to someone like Juri, she knew she would likely never have gotten such a smile, no matter what she'd said.

Her gaze followed the flashlight beam. Wasn't there supposed to be someone else joining them? Hope he didn't get held up or something, she thought with some worry for the unknown person.

She turned back to the older girl and listened to her description of their objective. The Brigadier General, huh? What was his name again? Hughes something? No wonder it had taken so long for the Cooking Club to get a message posted, Utena thought. She had almost been set to accept Hinamori's invitation to Arts & Crafts before Miss Chere had posted the call.

She nodded again when Chere was finished, and replied in an equally hushed tone. "I don't know him personally, but if he's in charge of a club like this, then I agree that it would hard to lose someone like that. Where were you thinking we'd start looking? Is there a place that people who have disappeared have wound up in before? Places where patients are held sometimes?"