Ed took a quick look around to be sure no other Bellum residents were present. Then he sighed, "I have no idea. I had just begun to get to know her and while we had talked about a number of personal matters...we hadn't talked about the kind of things that make it easy to look for her. I don't know about her family or her work. So I'm more or less stymied."
After a moment's pause he added, "You know, I wonder whether I'd be so concerned if it weren't for the fact that so many strange things happen at Bellum. Too many strange things to let anything go by without questioning it, if you ask me."