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Kaylee wondered if Father Tom should know about the dreams she'd been having lately. Death dreams...
The ball skidded off her fingers. As she retrieved it from the grimy puddle, Kaylee squeezed hard, trying to shut off her thoughts of the nightmare.
She quickly mumbled a Hail Mary and then began bouncing the ball, concentrating on keeping it in motion without a miss.
"K, my name is Kaylee, and my mother's name is Catherine ... we live in Paterson, New Jersey, and my mother is a secretary ..." She chanted in a breathless singsong, completely unaware that she was being observed by a figure two stories above her - someone whose features were covered by a garishly tinted mask of a woman's smiling face.

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