"A-Auntie 'xandria? I, um, I was wondering when you're coming home? I thought I heard something outside an' I was reading this book about a Grendel an' I got thinking about it and I was really, really wondering when you're coming home?" Melissa's chattering, anxious voice came over the end of the phone. That girl would never admit she was afraid, not to anybody. Not since her parent's death, of course.