Ivy frowned upon being told not to go into secret passages alone. That was the whole point. Secret passages were no fun if you needed to take some grown-up with you, especially a grown-up you didn't even know. She wanted to say she didn't want to take Mitch anywhere, but her father was looking at her, and he had told her just before they got out of the car she needed to be on her best behaviour. He was always worrying about something, and it didn't make any sense to her, because when he explained it, it never seemed like something to worry about in the first place.
"I have my own flashlight." She mumbled, but she had a sinking feeling her access to a personal light source wasn't going to change anyone's mind.
"Do not worry," Dark murmured, because he did not desire Ivy to be upset the first time she stepped into her new home, "we can build a blanket fort in our room, and nobody will be able to enter without the password, and your flashlight will be a wonderful chandelier. And maybe next week we can find all of the secret places in town."
From the deck, Rose interjected with, "I know a few, if you're hip enough to keep them secret."
"See? Everything will be alright," this promise only seemed to comfort the child slightly, but then Dark said something to her in Arabic, and she seemed far less bothered. Crisis averted, he finally responded to Luka's question, "Thank you for the offer, but we can manage. We packed the car ourselves, we will unpack it, too. We would not want to put you out, I am sure there is other buisness you must attend to."
He and Ivy then followed Luka and Ishade inside the house, but Rose stayed on the porch, and when the front door shut, she laughed lightly, "Well they're certainly interesting," she said to Mitch, before he went inside, if it was indeed what he was planning to do, "but it's nice they seem very close. I think Luka's eyes about bugged out of his head when you told the sweet girl about the secret places in the house."