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"Mrs Bendsfield?"

Her voice echoed across the barn

"Huh? Who there?" Mrs Bendsfield called back, her voice shrill

Dani couldn’t locate her "It’s me, Mrs Bendsfield’s Dani O’Hara"

"What? What you say? I thought a irl’s been dead a long ti

"No No, it’s me, Mrs Bendsfield I ca in the head again Little Daniella O’Hara was taken by that cancer I know because her ht her breath She hadn’t heard words spoken about Sandra, ever It had been an understood rule--no one talked about her grandmother

Mrs Bendsfield mused to herself "Oh no I know you’s inwhile back, left three rabbits behind, and her mother just sobbed and sobbed No one knohat to do No one knohat to do Little Daniella O’Hara was the el, that one No one knohat to do"

Dani took a hesitant step forward Crossing toward the pottery studio, she continued to hear Mrs Bendsfied mutter, and realized she was in a back roo

"I knows I’ my own voices Memories, that’s what they are Little Daniella O’Hara, always ca to Oscar, that she did No one knohat to do Her ht I was supposed to knohat to do, but I didn’t Clueless Just like the rest of theirl’s just back to haunt "

Dani paused at the doorway and saw Mrs Bendsfield’s petite figure She wore a loose long-sleeved shirt, as big as the old woman was, and she was bent over a pot Mrs Bendsfield was circling with a paintbrush in hand, pausing sporadically to lean forward anddetail to the pot

Dani saw herself staring into an onco ocean wave And she suddenly felt, literally felt, the waves co in a breath, she steeled herself The waves crashed back, and she heard the first scream--"Daniella O’Hara?"

Mrs Bendsfield stood frozen, hand raised, clenching a s the memory away "Mrs Bendsfield, I came in because I saw--"

"No" Mrs Bendsfield interrupted, waving the paintbrush at her, stabbing the air "Do you knohat you’ve been doing to uilt, and here you are, living, breathing, and part of my delusions I want you out! Out!"