"No!" Nora cried as she ran with her mother, the thought of leaving her behind way too much to handle. "I don't go anywhere without you, Mom."
She skidded across the floor, ducking the flames Sybil had thrown. The heat from the stairs told her it had hit somewhere close, but she didn't dare look back. Holding tightly to Audrey's hand, she tried to pull them both toward her mom's room. There was a trellis there, they could escape that way. Already, the fire blazing in her room was filling the house with smoke, and she coughed as she looked behind her to make sure her mom was still coming.