Cady begins to remember more of the day in summer fifteen when she had an accident, but many of the details remain unclear. She imagines a witch banging on her skull, and she takes pills to make the pain go away. She sometimes stays in bed for two days at a time.

Cady wakes up in the middle of the night and sees her Aunt Carrie outside. Carrie says she can't sleep without her partner, Ed.  

Cady visits Granddad and her mother at Clairmont. She notices some of the dogs are gone. Granddad tells her they passed on. He mistakes Cady for Mirren again and complains that all the little blonde girls are gone.