As she sat upon the steps of the house, all Edie could think about was the matter at hand. That she was alone, without a pack bond, and without her mate. But he... he would be coming at any time. He had said that he would follow her soon. He would lead them astray, make sure that it was safe, and then he would follow her back to Sacrosanct and they would be together with their child. That was surely what was happening. Kato was fine. Edie's fractured mindset seemed to latch on to that mentality. That Kato was fine and on her way to her, and until then all she had to do was sit and wait somewhere that he knew to look for her.

With her thoughts deep within her own mind, Edie hadn't noticed the small boy at the window. Nor did she notice the door open or the woman who stepped outside. Her attention was only diverted from her own thoughts by the sound of her name, and only then did she look up with weary eyes. It took Edie several moments of blinking before she recognized the face, though she hardly understood why she was here. She hadn't been a part of Frost's pack when Edie had left, though she supposed a lot could change in two years. A lot had changed in two years for Edie herself, after all.

"Hi," Edie said timidly, thinking perhaps naively that that would be the end of their conversation. The fox turned her attention back towards the street, staring at it with blank eyes. She would wait here. For Kato. Or at least she would until Nadya's hands grabbed at her shoulders in an attempt to hoist her off. Could she walk? Nadya's question rang in her ears. Yes... she could, right? She wasn't hurt, not much more than scrapes on her arms and legs from where she had fallen as she ran. Her hair was a mess, the front part of her hair sticky with blood from a nearly healed cut on her forehead. One of the Hunters had struck her there, she thought. Before Kato...

"I can't," Edie said, though she didn't make a motion to push the woman off her. "I have to wait for..." A burst of pain in her chest seemed to erupt at the thought. He was fine, Edie repeated to herself. Still, she found herself heaved to her feet by Nadya. She offered no resistance - nor any help - to be guided inside. No, Edie herself seemed to be entirely in a daze after the events of the day. Really, it wasn't until she was being guided to sit upon the couch did her attention focus at all, and then only onto the two children that sat opposite her.

"They're... big." Edie managed, gesturing to the twins with mild interest. They had been so tiny the last time she'd been in Sacro, though she'd only seen them in pictures. To see them sitting here... in Frost's... Edie's mind latched on to the room instead, eyeing the room she'd been in so many times before. That couch, where she'd introduced Frost and Kato. Where she'd curled up so many times with him. Those stairs that led to their room. The kitchen. The backyard. The memories seemed to erupt at the sight of the place and Edie did little more than let out a pathetic noise rather akin to a sob. No, no. He was fine.

Edie's gaze fell to Nadya's as she listened to her question. What had happened? To that, Edie could barely manage to process in herself. "We... Kato and I..." She struggled with her words, fighting both the urge to cry and to fall apart. "We'd... been traveling... I saw... so much." They'd decided on their visit to England to take time to explore the world before coming back to Sacrosanct, and in the meantime they'd explored country after country. Edie could barely remember the country in which they'd finally married - it had been under the stars with just the two of them. Nor could she remember which country it was that she discovered her pregnancy. It had been two weeks before she'd managed to tell him, and he had been so overjoyed at the idea of it that Edie had put aside any fears she'd held about becoming a mother. It had been that they'd decided returning to Sacrosanct would be the best decision. Raise the child in a pack home with protections and family. It was wiser than to raise it in Africa when neither of them were sure which species the child would end up being. A rhino may have fared fine in the Savannah. But a fox...?

"We... I found out..." She put a hand on her stomach, unable to say everything that came to her mind. "Kato... we decided to come home to raise the... We... we took a boat..." Yes, she remembered the boat. It was better than planes. Kato hated planes. "And we were traveling... and almost... when Hunters... six of them... they said they didn't want... more mixed breed..." The pitiful sob noise escaped her again, though she didn't let any tears fall. No, instead she stared blankly ahead as she forced herself to continue. "Kato... he told me to go... that he'd meet up with me. I ran... I ran all day. I... He'll be here soon."