Another chapter extremely late. But musical season is finally over! Now I can do things with my time other than reciting my lines! "She made brazen overtures to a man who never had a friend in this town 'till she came here." Cudos to anyone who figures out what character I was. ;)

Did you know Enderman tears are purple? Just think, I could've gone through my whole life not knowing this if I hadn't broken down crying. He's really gone. This didn't hit me until we had cleaned up after the attack; I guess I was sort of stunned.

That was 4 days ago.

The others have been walking on eggshells around me. My crying must've really gotten to them. Temperance barely lets me go anywhere alone. I get that she's worried, but that doesn't mean she needs to watch me like a hawk.

I decided to take a walk, with temperance's permission, of course. Soon I was on top of the trees, staring into the distance. I turned around, hoping to see Scree, but the leaves were empty. I've already tried to mind-speak to him, and teleport, but nothing works. Mentally exhausted, I looked up at the night sky.

The moon was almost full. Gatherings happen on full moons. I came here around a gathering. Does that mean I've been here a month? Wow, time flies. Wait, the gathering! with that thought, I teleported back to the base.

Temperance met me at the door. "Kate, are you okay?"

"Yeah?"

"Good. I was thinking, and the gathering will happen soon, we could get help and find scree."

"Exactly!"

Since I'm a nice author, and you readers only need the important stuff, let's time warp!

doo doo dee doo dee doo time warp doo dee doooo time warp

After a long trek, Temperance, Ben and I finally reached the sandstone square where the gatherings take place. A few mobs were already present, but more slowly filled in until the square was barely noticeable.

"Kate, maybe you should find the lead enderman." Temperance suggested.

"Good idea." I replied. I closed my eyes and found my way into ender's mind.

"Ender, sir? are you there?" I thought/asked.

The answer came, "Kate, is that you?"

"Yes, it's me."

"Then it looks like you have your enderman skills down."

"Yeah, thanks to Scree."

"Speaking of Scree, do you know where he is? I've been trying to talk to him."

Here we go. "That's why I came, sir. Scree was... taken."

"Taken? by who? where?"

"Some nether mobs attacked us. They wanted me, but scree tricked them into taking him instead."

"I knew the nether mobs were getting aggressive, but i didn't expect them to kidnap an enderman. They may as well have just declared war!"

"We need to do something about it and I have a few ideas. Could I make an announcement?"

"Of course, just let me get through the preliminary briefing first."

"Thank you."

With that, our connection broke. I returned to my friends and waited for the "briefing" as Ender called it. Just like last time, one of each mob stood on the edge of the square, going through their numbers lost and number of kills. After the others were done, Ender began to speak.

"This month we've had one possible loss. I say possible because even I am not sure of his fate. But before anyone panics, I will let this be explained. Kate?" Ender looked at me. There was a lot of whispering among the crowd as I joined the leaders. I took a deep breath and began.