The game thrills and excites Vincent but frightens Natalie badly. She frequently babysits for her next-door neighbor Justine Crown’s children, Vincent and Natalie.ĭown at the playground, Abigail has started to see children playing an athletic but slightly disturbing call-and-response game called Beatie Bow, in which a child in a sheet chases other children round the yard until the next Beatie Bow is tagged. She feels there is an “empty place” inside of her, but doesn’t know what created it or could possibly fill it. Abigail is fourteen years old, a thin plain girl who is clever but reserved, and very much a loner. When Abigail’s father leaves Abigail and Kathy for a younger woman, Abigail renounces the name Lynette, and chooses for herself “Abigail” because it sounds like a witch’s name.įour years after his departure, Abigail and her mother still live in a modern, high-rise apartment building designed by Weyland. Abigail Kirk is born Lynette Kirk, a name her mother Katherine regrets and her father Weyland loves.
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