"Getting used to being home again." How could she reacclimate if she was never here? "It's wearing on Ma." Fiona hadn't said as much, but it had to be hard on her. She was distracted with Wally, but it had to be difficult to watch Sloane slink away next door day after day to escape the house.

"She's always next door with the Hatchitts." Not that it was unsafe or far away, but how could she ever get used to being in the house if she was never in the house! She had no idea what it had been like when she was gone, how empty the house felt, how quiet and now it was the same, except she was alive and well, just avoiding them.