Yeah! I'm glad we're back to them too, I was missing them a little myself. ^^ I love Haru~ Always have, and it made me love him more when he stood up to Kaname (even though I love him too xD). I found Gengoro's silent but pained reaction after Haru stood up to Kaname really heart-breaking too. :(

Well it looks like everyone is heading north towards the shore, so maybe they'll find them but who knows! If the fire dies down, then they may track back to the settlement only to find it gone. =/

Yeah well in the recent chapters the story arc has changed again and there are some interesting things going on. I'm not sure what's going to happen, but I don't think everyone is going to meet up in the next story arc, not yet anyway. I would say 7 Seeds probably still has another few years to go, probably. But it should be slowly leading up to a climax. I think she wants to focus a bit on developing Kaname's characters first though, and Autumn's since they've been a bit neglected compared to the rest. xD