Downloading A Monstrous Light

What do you do when the person who's your whole word vanishes in a monstrous light?

You hunt them down, of course. Across continents, to the edge of the Waste, through death and deception all the way to the corpse of the creature who would have killed you both.

And when you find him? Well.

You do what you have to to keep him. Anything you have to.