There was a knock on the door. Callie squealed and ran to the front door. That meant it was at least one of the Rosses. Zaira didn’t bother with her human glamours.

When she got to the door Callie was desperately to turn the doorknob, but the babyproofing held up. Zaira spotted Julian through the door. She smiled and opened the door.

Jordan was the first one in, scooping up his cousin and bouncing her up and down.

“Hi, Bean!”

“Ordan!”

“Yay!” Jordan ran out of the house towards his grandparents’ house. Callie in his arms.

Zaira and Julian watched them go.

“I hope you weren’t planning on doing anything today.”

“Nope.”

“Wanna come visit?”

Stolen story; please report.

“Let me go get the diaper bag.”

She quickly grabbed the diaper bag from the living room and headed out the door.

Halfway down the driveway her face nearly collided with a floating scroll. She jerked back and blinked, getting her bearings.

“What’s that?”

“A work summons.” Zaira grabbed the scroll from the air.

Massive forest fires. Come ASAP. Prepare for a multiple casualty event.

There were coordinates at the bottom. It was close by.

“This is bad.”

Julian nodded. “When do you have to leave?”

“I have time to ask Hannah to keep Callie and say goodbye and then I'm off.”

Twenty minutes later she had taken off in the direction of the fire. It didn’t take fifteen minutes to see the fire on the horizon. It was near Refuge and she knew that area of the forest was well occupied. This was going to be bad.