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“You said it’s the fifth one of the second row behind the trees, right?” she asks to confirm, hand a bit raised and pointing somewhere towards the row coming up where his grave should be.
He furrows his brow, not quite understanding why she sounds so uncertain. “I did, yeah.” He follows Crystal’s hand, trying to look behind the tree that’s obstructing his view. “What’s wrong?”
“It's just–” She pauses, frowning. “There’s… There's already someone there.”
Or: 1989, six days after a boy named Charles Rowland suddenly disappears, a Pakistani boy seeks refuge in the attic of St. Hilarion Boarding School.