... Natalie, I ... thought you were dead.

[ This part is said ... carefully, with her eyebrows drawn up and tight together. ]

Milla told us what happened, and ... that you and Seizaburo gotten pulled down by those skeletons. We hoped that you would somehow survive, but...

[ She hadn't really had any faith. Not till she heard a soft and desperate voice beneath the floorboards.

Xion looks away. ]

It was ... the worst feeling in the whole world.