.... i felt compelled to check and the one non galarian pokemon line that learns defog below lv10 or so is ducklett at lv6....... this is too game specific to be an actual clue but there is fog :|a

my thought about the beach was def off when framed like this i think

who do we have who would be likely to wait until night time and snoop around the hospital, would that be the next step in narrowing down where the kids actually went?