She didn't hang up, and he was hardly going to do it first. He went searching for his shoes and his mother, since she was going to have to drive. "Okay. I-I can do this. We can do this. We'll meet at her house and figure out what to do. You got people to come watch my house with one post the other day. Yeah? So we'll do this too." He was saying it as much for his own reassurance as he was for hers.

"Cai's there already? I can be there in about ten and I can find him."