River pushed open the door from her bedroom, as she had expected, she hadn't slept a wink. She stumbled down the hallway and down the stairs.
The house was silent, Zen was out of town working, there was no visitors unlike usual, Finlay was off at a friend's house, Lachlan was... Taken. The dogs were even unnaturally quiet. The silence would usually bring peace to River, but now she only shuddered from it. And when Peterson or Scorch did make the slightest noise, she jumped, as if expecting the Pure to be there.
I need to get out of here, I need to find Lachlan and Bleddyn and Wolfram... She thought, gritting her teeth, and she started hunting for a pen or pencil and paper to explain everything encase someone stopped by.