No, it can't be, Soudin brushed the thought aside and the first thing he did was to lift Greta and swing her high in the air as she ran towards him, what an awful lot of strength her grandfather possessed to lift her like that. Tyler had always thought Greta tough but seeing him in the arms of her grandma reminded him of Mimi and the airplane rides with his father. Too bad he wouldn't be seeing those anymore even if he returned home.

"I went to the birdkeeper," Soudin began as he put Greta back down. "He'd informed me that the two students had left and were probably here."...