William Mabb, their father, said he was shocked by their eerily calm response.

Instead, she felt eerily calm and alert, like a person who had just been sucked out of an airliner into a cold, scintillating blue sky.

"I am the ranking officer, last I checked," he said in that same eerily calm tone.

"Stevens to Pattie," he said in an eerily calm voice, "how are things going up there?"

Sean paused a moment, thinking, and then went on in his eerily calm voice.

"Who - you can tell me this time," Clark said in an eerily calm voice.

Lawler, aghast, swung about to stare at the eerily calm water.

In an eerily calm frenzy, Rayna smashed everything she could see.

His voice was eerily calm and flat as he finished, "The two together are more than I can bear."

Indeed, most of the nation sat poised, eerily calm and quiet, anxiously waiting for war.