Listening to her parents' incessant ramblings, Claire found both epiphany and a pang of misery.

Now, she understood that there were simply matters beyond explanation even to her loved ones—just thinking about it also filled her with apprehension.

That certainly was the case with the present, secreting her parents out of Oskia indefinitely without prior warning.

If Claire told them the truth, they would at first be shocked, but also unable to hold back their urges to contact Charlie, consider