Lavender had thought about not returning to the house, but she needed Yancy and Max because of their connections. She approached Murdark to help her again, but he declined. The reason he gave her was that he didn't want to take the chance of being close to Namakaehe. That was the only thing he told her.
When she returned home, she thought it was too quiet because she didn't hear the television. Max is always watching western and karate movies. "Maybe they went hurting," she mumbles while slowly walking down the hall. Lavander stops in her tracks when she's looking at some trees because half of the wall is missing. A crow flies in and lands on her head. She screams, causing to crow to fly back outside.
She sits down, looking around the room, wondering what happened. And where Yancy and
