It can't be

7: It can't be

The sound of hurried footsteps follows. Waylen turns and sees her, waves, and seeing her distraught look, decides to walk over.

'Maybe she wants to tell me something,' he thinks.

Camilla takes a step back from him. His colleagues frown. What could be wrong with her? They pause their work to watch the two siblings.

"What's wrong, Camille?" Waylen asks as he approaches her.

"No, it can't be," she whispers.

"Camille..."

"No!" With a vigorous shake of the head, she turns on her heels and is gone.

"What the..?" one of the carpenters say.

"What could be wrong with her?" Waylen thinks out loud. "I'll have to follow her and talk it out."

"It's not closing time yet. You can't leave before then and by the way, you haven't even completed your work for the day," their supervisor chimes. A tall man with snow-white skin and a broken nose, sometimes Waylen wonders if he's an undercover vampire. The thought always made him shiver.

Seeing as there wasn't much he can do before the day is