Chapter 345: Veiled Threat
Elmo wasn't sure what was going on. First the others arrive, then they start asking about someone that he'd never even heard of: Elin. If they had said something more than that, then maybe he wouldn't be so confused about it.
The only thing that he could possibly think of was that they'd encountered someone named Elin while they were on their way here, and thought that this 'Elin' had come by here. Although, he couldn't say that his explanation would explain why Jonas had left almost right after he got here or why Kim wanted a private word with Sonya.
There was just too much that didn't make any sense.
Not to mention, when Grisha showed up, he couldn't help feel like it had only gotten stranger. As while he remembered what Grisha had come here for, he couldn't remember how he knew some details, such as that someone had seen his sister a while ago. An exact time wasn't clear to Elmo, but he wasn't sure if it was because of how he knew those details was also fuzzy or if it was because he'd merely heard it from someone else.
"Should I have brought more rabbits?" Grisha had said when he'd first arrived after Bart made his announcement. "I didn't expect anyone to arrive so suddenly."
"Don't worry about it," Elwin had remarked without looking in Grisha's direction. "We brought some bear meat with us."
"I don't believe we've met before," Owen said, walking over to Grisha as the man carried four rabbits over to where they'd recently cleaned the boar. "I'm Owen."
"I'm Grisha," Grisha replied, looking a little uneasy at Owen's friendliness. "What're all of you doing here? They told me that they knew someone who could help me find my sister, but they never said anything about so many others."
"I guess we just didn't think about it," Elmo said, unsure whether or not they actually did mention everyone. He thought they had, but he really couldn't be sure.