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PANEL ONE: NAN is still cooking something in a pot on the stove, but glances over at DYLAN.

NAN:
You say no one else saw this girl? This girl with no feet?

DYLAN:
Yeah, and no one but me would go near the field she was in.

NAN:
Oulton’s field? Mm.

NARR:
Nan always said “Mm.” when she was thinking. It was her way of saying to be patient until she had something to say.


PANEL TWO: NAN continues stirring the pot, unperturbed. Warm vapours are rising from the pot.

NAN:
And you’re sure she’s a ghost?

DYLAN:
Nan, she was floating over a hole! With no feet!

PANEL THREE: NAN tastes her ground beef stew with a wooden spoon.

NAN:
What was her name, again?

DYLAN:
Melissa Corregan.

PANEL FOUR: NAN gestures out of the kitchen.

NAN:
Tell you what: I’ve got supper to get on. Why don’t you go on your mother’s computer and look up this girl. Use the words “Coven Cove” so’s you don’t get some other girl.

PANEL FIVE: DYLAN goes into the next room where there is a computer desk with a 1990’s computer monitor on it.

NARR:
Nan didn’t have much use for computers (unless it was playing cards online with her friends), so it was pretty much just Mum and me that knew how to use it, anyway.

PANEL SIX: Close-up on the computer screen, which has an old article from a local newspaper which reads: CORREGAN GIRL MISSING with only three lines underneath it.

NARR:
I searched Melissa’s name and I finally came up with an old article from our local paper, the Grimoire, from 1901: