that there might be a kitty or something in your house, too! That could explain it, and it's a less lonely thought!

shakes her head. The door's been locked since she got in, and before she'd got home. But it's a possibility.

passes through every room, peering under furniture and around corners. "Kitty? Here, puss. Miaow." What if it wasn't a cat?

...no, let it be a cat. The alternatives are scary.

what else it could be - he's not the sort to think of scary things, so he's much more inclined to think that it could be a kitty or a bird _

or a cute little mouse then anything actually bad. He'd help you look, if you wanted~

wished he would. She'd eliminated possible sources - the grandfather clock was in the basement, and the radio plug had been pulled out of

the wall. So what else?

happily help! Do you have a phone? It could be that. It could be off the hook. Is something loose? Sometimes things roll around and make _

lots and lots of noise!

checks her telephone - it's fine. And how things suddenly start rolling around?
Particularly when they haven't been rolling around before?

The kitchen cabinets were silent, the wardrobes were dark and empty of everything but clothes and shoes. The taps had been fixed last month

and they weren't dripping now. Both the computer and the TV were switched off.

hears a crash to her left, and jumps.

doesn't really know. Uhmm. They just do? Maybe? He doesn't really think about it much, but then again his house is full of things that fall_

and roll all the time... Or it's his Grandpa back from the dead again... Do you have any family that might have come in?

shakes her head. Not really. Nobody visits her often enough to be there without her noticing.
The crash goes unexplained, everything from

its vicinity is in its place and orderly.

starting to get a little spooked now... maybe it was... the wint?

*wind?

had shut all the windows earlier in the day because of General Winter. Unless he's tossing rocks into the drainpipe, it's unlikely he's the

one making all that noise - and the drainpipe's over on the other side of the house.

well... what if he made the noise outside and it made something inside fall over?

That was a good point. Even if it did sound improbable. Time to go searching again!

...but everything on this side of the house is in place! D:

then heard somebody's voice, giggling weakly. What in the name of everything good ...

seriously starting to get freaked out. Can he cling to you? Please please please? This is getting scary!

why the young man looks so very scared. True, it was a little freaky at first, but now it was just annoying her.

padded quietly to the source of the tinny voice. It had come from a sofa. In her bedroom.
She stuck her hand in under the cushions,

and pulled out a small oblong object she hadn't seen in quite a while.

"What's a walkie-talkie doing here?" she asks aloud. The voices were louder now, but still undecipherable. She could hear laughing, though.