'Nick knows something more important than that,' he returned, still sounding afraid.

"I don't know," Jupiter said, and his voice sounded suddenly afraid.

She says, "You saw that it was my number, why do you sound afraid?"

He barely recognized his own voice; it sounded weak and afraid.

She opened her eyes then because he sounded so very afraid.

He could hear voices being raised outside, and they sounded afraid, too.

Grigory couldn't understand what he was saying, but the voice didn't sound panicky or afraid.

Sometimes he sounded afraid, but lots of times he'd smile, too.

He did not sound afraid of it, only resigned.

For the first time in the centuries that she'd known him, he had sounded afraid.