Mel has a sort of... 'oh, fuck' sense. It's stronger when it's people she knows.

Melinda hadn't seen Alec most of that day. And she felt a sort of... strange, bad feeling in her gut. Not in the 'you're going to die' sense, not in the fact that one of her enemies would find her, but in the fact that something very bad had happened.

She heads to the Inn. She stops when she sees that it looks better than it did before.

Melinda heads to the door, quickly, dread building the closer she got.