No. [Having to say that finally sparks an emotion other than unease and distress--her reply sounds distinctly grumpy.] I don't think he's a very good communicator. But this place has been abandoned for so long that I'm not sure how we would distinguish anything unusual from the rest of it.

[She lifts the tops of another couple of desks as she speaks. More dried-out paints and melted crayons, and she tries to look through one with more thoroughness. But the childish drawings... simple, brightly-colored scrawls of houses, and dogs, and a family... a mother and a father and two children...

Her hand jerks away, and the desk slams down, but not before something smaller and shiny falls out onto the little chair. Ethlyn doesn't notice it, but it looks like a smartwatch.]