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PANEL ONE: DYLAN at age six, playing kickball in a field with other children.

NARR:
It started when I was six;

NARR2:
My friends and I were playing out in a field after school, running, kicking a ball around, not a care in the world…

PANEL TWO: A small boy kicks the ball over an old rickety wooden fence into a neighbouring field.

NARR:
…until my friend Troy kicked the ball over the fence to a neighbouring field.

PANEL THREE: DYLAN starts to climb over the fence but is stopped by a little girl (SANDRA) on his team.

NARR:
I was on my way to retrieve it when the other kids stopped me.

GIRL:
That’s Oulton’s field. We don’t go in there.

PANEL FOUR: DYLAN asks the girl, SANDRA, why not:

DYLAN:
Why? No one’s lived there since I can remember.

SANDRA:
Bad things happen in Oulton’s field, is all.

PANEL FIVE: DYLAN looks across the fence into the field. There, standing in the middle of it, under a shady tree, in some tall grass, is a girl who is just standing and staring right at them.

NARR:
I remember thinking how weird it was to be so scared of an empty field; but then I looked up, and plain as day I could see a little girl, watching us.

PANEL SIX: Closer shot of the girl. Standing there, staring blankly, somehow ominous, partly in shadow. She is standing in tall grass and we cannot see her feet.

NARR:
She didn’t move, just stood and stared.