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probably the only one you’ll go to. Am I right?” she asks snidely.
     “Cheat my way out of it? What do you-”
    “That’s because you don’t care about the dead children. The
only reason you’re here is because of Shana, out of respect, but you don’t feel
any loss for her sister.”
    “How can you say that? They’re like family to me.”
     “But they’re not your family. You haven’t suffered any real
loss. You think Lady Luck is on your side, but it’s about time- oh,” she stops
and puts her hand to her face.
    I narrow my eyes and try to figure out what’s wrong, and
then I see it. I see a little trickle of red running from between her fingers.
She’s having a sudden nosebleed. I think about offering help, but after her
selfish reasoning over how I didn’t lose Adam or care about Denise, I really
don’t think I should. She pushes past me, I guess to get a tissue, but the
closest building to the funeral site is the funeral parlor which is a few
hundred feet away, so she breaks into a jog. It almost mimics the speed she
runs in front of me on track.
    Something catches my eye. I look and see Lionel Willow
running around the graveyard, seemingly unattended. Lionel is pretty short,
even for a four year old, and the puff of curly brown hair on his head is
almost as big as his face, but it’s not him that catches my eye. I walk over to
investigate closer and as I approach I almost see it. It’s mid-afternoon,
bright daylight so you can see through the lightly spaced tree line, but in one
area, in one gap, you can hardly see anything. Instead there is blackness. It's
not just a shadow; it's out of place, like someone is standing there. Could it
be someone hiding behind a tree? No with the way the sun is positioned, from
behind the trees, the shadow would be cast toward us. This one is in one spot.
I walk over to it, hoping it's just a trick of the eye.
    As I get closer I can see that the shadow is moving, and I
recognize the movement. It's got those violent, jagged contortions like the
static being from my dream. Only this time it's not as vivid or as clear. If
not for the incident in the hospital, I probably would think it’s all in my
head. I walk over to Lionel and he looks up at me. I've only met Lionel a few
times, mostly on special occasions, and every time I meet him he gives me a big
baby-toothy grin and says
    “Hi.” This time Lionel stops moving and begins to cry. I
squat down and put my hand on his shoulder. He's starting to wail and I heard a
pair of footsteps approach. Mrs. Lionel comes swooping in and picks him up.
    “What are you doing way out here?” she asks him, but more in
a cooing manner than scolding him. She looks at me quizzically.
    I shake my head and say “I saw him running around over here
and came to get him then he freaked,” I explain.
    “Oh, but he loves you! Maybe something spooked him. This
isn't a very happy environment,” she explains with a grin just as toothy as her
son's. Her teeth are bright white. In fact, it looks unnatural, but with her
being a dentist I guess you can expect that. He begins coughing and a spot of
blood appears on her neck.
    “Oh I see,” she says.
    “Someone's allergies are acting up, huh?” she says in that
same cooing manner. I give a forced smile and she nods back at me before
patting him on the back and walking back over to the others.
    At that I remember why I came over here and look back to the
tree line. The being is gone, but I can still... feel it. I look around the
trees from my position and when I don't see anything, I turn back around. Is it
really the same thing I saw in that dream? I wonder. I know my eyes aren't
playing tricks on me. Maybe it is some kind of omen? Maybe Death is watching
over us hungry for more? I begin to walk back and notice the place is starting
to clear out. I don't see any of the Sourwoods and it looks like the Willows
are about to take their leave as well. In fact, even the cemetery staff seems
to