Melanie starts her morning by bathing and eating, before determining whether or not she had the strength to leave the safety of her family's dwelling.

The strength certainly was there, she only "looked" ill because she was acting oddly at least by Eramus view point. She found herself alone though throughout the day, her father disappearing to a friend's house that he was interviewing for the final pages of his novel and her brother was out probably with his friends or down at the pier again, that was yet to be determined as she finished her bath in a bath house not too far from their house owned by the family of course but not attached to the main building.

There were a few dark clouds in the sky. A storm? The clouds were gray in color but she had to guess if it would actually rain given that there were not too many clouds and there were on the horizon so an immediate storm wasn't going to happen any time soon.