Fear
Mary Katherine listens to the floor creaking and thinks she can tell where Elizabeth and Brian are. When she thinks it’s safe, she gets out of bed so she can alert her parents. However she almost runs into Elizabeth and Brian who are looking into her brother’s soon. So she runs back to her room, fearful she’s been spotted, “I thought, you know, be quiet, because if he hears you, he might take you too, and you’re the only person who has seen this,” Mary Katherine says in a later interview. “I was, like, shaking.”

USA Crime Elizabeth Smart