"I didn't know what it was," a frantic voice came back.

Like it was trying to tell me something in a scratchy, frantic voice.

The frantic voices stopped as he opened the door a foot.

The frantic voice faded to a whisper and was gone.

When there were a lot, he spoke in a frantic, desperate voice.

Lucas was still on the line, his voice frantic as he tried to find out what had happened.

He ran one way, then another, but their increasingly frantic voices always seemed to be behind him.

Just then they both heard Menolly's name being called in a frantic voice.

A frantic voice in the back of his head started whispering for him to hurry.

"Listen, you'd better get somebody down here right away," a frantic voice said.