"Jessie, would you mind coming down here a minute!" Jessie Fletcher jerked her head up from the picture she was drawing, a rather elaborate sketch depicting an animal not native to the planet, and pulled the earbud of her CD player from its place in her pointed ear. Well, technically the CD player wasn’t hers, but she usually ignored this fact. "Coming, Dad!" "Would you mind explaining why there is a fire extinguisher stuck up the chimney?" "It was an accident, Daddy, really." "I’m sure it was, but why put it there in the first place?" Jessie glanced downward and nudged the rug with her toe. -- "IT!"