Sydney Sawyer paid Lauren Brooks no mind, continuing to text Sebastian Lockwood with her head down.
[I just left my brother's club and happened to run into your sister. I'm heading home in her car now.]
[Where's the car now?]
[I have no idea.]
[...]
Sydney Sawyer felt the roads in Aethelgard were a winding maze, especially the elevated expressways. If she were the one driving, she would be completely and utterly lost.
So she sent her location to Sebastian Lockwood.
In reality, they were only a ten-minute-or-so drive from the compound.
**
Sebastian Lockwood's academic conference had ended before four o'clock. He went home, changed his clothes, then took Timmy Lockwood for a check-up. Only after confirming the cat was perfectly healthy did he finally feel at ease.
After he finished texting Sydney Sawyer, he bought a bag of cat litter from the pet store.
As he walked home, holding the cat in one arm and the cat litter in the other, he spotted Yancy Hale's car from a distance.
