Azaria had been sleeping peacefully when the sound of her doorbell pulled her from her deep and dreamless sleep. At first, she thought she had imagined it and her brain was just conjuring noises. Her eyes remained closed for a moment as she listened to the quiet of the house, hoping it had simply been part of a dream about to happen, but then the bell rang again, followed almost immediately by Wolf's bark from somewhere outside her bedroom. She let out a sleepy sigh and slowly reached across the bedside table for her glasses. She slipped it on and reached for her phone before deciding against it and looking instead at the small clock sitting beside her bed. The glowing numbers made her frown because it showed that it was well past midnight.
