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"No No Mrs Bendsfield, it’s hter I caot loose She’s in the ditch"

Mrs Bendsfield sniffed and crossed her arms The paintbrush smeared paint across her face and arm, but she didn’t notice as she stared intensely at her She circled Dani’s forle Then she murmured, "You’re the best damn delusion I’ve ever had I must’ve had an extra dose of mushrooh

"Mrs Bendsfield, I ahost here to haunt you I aot loose" Her head inclined forward an inch "A cow"

"Oh" She waved the paintbrush in a diso for a walk, so I let her loose Don’t worry She’ll come back"

"Mrs Bendsfield"

"No, no" Mrs Bendsfield turned back to her pottery and hunched down on her haunches She returned to painting "GoldenEye always comes back Always has, alill You can either take off or you can sit and entertain et snippy with lanced back to the door, but sat on an empty chair in the corner She’d never known that Mrs Bendsfield knew her grandhost would be haunting the potter

"Why would I be haunting you?"

Mrs Bendsfield sniffed, wrinkling her nose at Dani "You knohy Don’t play that gahost"

"I’ you, but I don’t knohy I’d at least like to knohy I’host"

Mrs Bendsfield fixed her with another hair-raising stare Then she shrugged "Because you loved my Oscar and I wouldn’t have any of that"

Oscar Bendsfield was Mrs Bendsfield’s son He went ht with his mother over his absent father He wanted to find hiht, he walked to the woods and never ca sleepovers The ued he hadn’t abond father, but sootten snatched and murdered Still, others always said Mrs Bendsfield killed hie because he dared defy her word

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