“Alice. There's a pigeon pecking at the window,” Relm snuffled into her pillow. She rolled over with a sleepy sigh. “Can you get it please?”
Alice yawned wide and stumbled out of bed, stubbing her toe on her desk's chair as she groped in the dark for the clearest way to the window. She opened it and fumbled for the pigeon, relieving it of its cargo and unrolling it as she sunk to the floor with another yawn.
‘Alice. Found Gau's books at the entrance to town. Note saying not coming back to school. Carol's going ballistic. Determined to find him. Don't worry. Eric.’
Alice blinked, her brain wide awake. “Don't worry?” she mumbled. She crumpled up the paper and threw it across the room. The pigeon squawked and flew out the window and back toward home. Not coming back to school? Why not? What in blazes did Carol say?