"So, is it always like this? They disappear up the stairs and leave you ladies down here?" They all looked around at each other.

"Isn't it that way at your house?" One of the women Mrs. Lyon had just introduced me to spoke up. I wasn't ready to remember their names because I wasn't sure how this thing was gonna go yet. "Nope, they can try."

I'd already ascertained that the house was clear for lack of a better word. There were more live bodies here ...