She nodded slowly, unsure of what to say. But Knuckles was right. The power outage had affected the entire school. Maybe even the town. There was no way they were just going to make everyone wait. They'd start working on it right away.

"They're probably looking into it as we speak. I'm sure you're right."

Then she rubbed her hands together, as if fishing for something to say that didn't involve nightmares and horrible monsters under beds and inside closets. "You... said you had something to talk with me about...?"