Erica considers. "Okay," she says, "how's this. We make a plan here: everything we need to hide by ourselves, and everything we'd need to hide with Suze. Then we go to your place, gather everything we can, and then- try to sing her back. Somehow."

"If that doesn't work, we take off, try to hunt them down. Make a new plan if and when we find her. If it does, we take off with her, and figure it out from there."

She wants, more than anything, to include Tommy in these plans somehow. She's telling herself it's "for his protection." If she can do this, surely her brother could, too? But she knows it's just because she's missing him, and it will just endanger him. So she won't mention him, or try to plan around him.

She'll just miss him.