Abby casts another sidelong look at Dean as he mutters along with her aunt before losing interest and peering around him, trying to see back into the apartment where Sam went, see what he was hitting. There doesn’t seem to be any chance of that though and so she starts taking experimental swings with the shovel, barely avoiding scratching the paper on the walls of the hallway as Dean starts speaking again:
>>“Seriously? No one mentioned that. How come it's not made the papers, all those kids vanishing at once? Seems pretty weird. Y'hear that, Sam?”
That makes her look back up because Dean is doing that thing adults usually do to her where they repeat what she’s saying to someone else like maybe she won’t notice they are talking to each other instead of her. She’s never seen anyone do it to an adult though and she considers Dean with renewed interest as her aunt replies: “It’ll be in the papers tomorrow I expect…it only just happened yesterday and the police wanted it kept quiet for a day or so till they decided what details to hold back, some kind of procedural thing-- Abby what are you doing?” Abby jumps, tries to hide the shovel behind her back, but Aunt Laura grabs it away from her and holds it away from herself with a half-confused half-exasperated expression on her face as she looks first at the shovel and then at Abby. “What is… I think it’s past time for you to get home missy. The last thing we need is you running around the neighbourhood distracting everyone from looking for your sister.” Abby flushes reflexively, opening her mouth to protest, but then thinks better of it. She doesn’t have the shovel now so she can’t go get the goat but she knows where her dad keeps his hammer and the window to her room opens easily from the inside. She used to scare Laacey saying she would let monsters in to crawl up the stairs in the night and eat her. She can get out again just as well.