I put my keys on the counter where they could see them and guided them toward the table.

The yellow shirt and the pink shirt were the first bright things I had seen connected to that dark house.

I looked at my phone, lying beside the kettle.

I needed to find out whether someone was searching for two lost children.

I needed help from people equipped to protect them.

I also needed to avoid frightening them so badly that they tried to run again.

Before I could reach the phone, Chloe pointed to the water jug.