<<No.>> Emma shook her head. <<Nothing's really disappearing at home, unless you count Christie, and I can't prove anything there. Same with the food carts and some of the street people I know; no one counts the transient population.>>

....it wasn't hers to share that Alex's siblings were missing, but she was becoming more and more convinced that it was connected to everything else. <<We don't have buildings or countries just...gone. Not like everyone else.>>

Not yet, anyway.