Vivi's Question When Mikoto Doesn't Return

[Below is a combined and archived version of a LiveJournal crosspost and related responses originally here and here, because LiveJournal became hard to impossible for me to access. Icons and threading not preserved, with an attempt to post each reply thread as a single reply.]

[Vivi (lil_mage_vivi@livejournal.com)]
Here's a rare thing... a young Black Mage that isn't part of that flock of hatchlings that plays here. This one looks older, perhaps about twelve, and worried.

"Should you be worried if someone goes missing when it wouldn't really be a surprise if they just left?"