"He's been better!" Sarah exclaimed. "Something new is starting to happen with [i]her[/i]. She made him cry bloody tears, but the doctors could not find a reason for them, even going as far as saying it wasn't blood, but some weird thing that would probably never happen again."

Julia looked up from her book, her face pale. "The doctors momma takes us to are nothing but quacks." She pushed her nose back into her book, trembling slightly, growing more cold the longer she pretended to ignore Emily. The ghost did not like being ignored. Not at all. At the moment, the five year old could feel what felt like icy fingernails running up and down her spine, not hard enough to cause marks, but they were a little painful and just made her so very cold.

"I can't explain it," Nathan said, smacking away Sarah's hands as his sister tried to push him back down on the bed again. "Stop it, Sarah. I can sit up."

Sarah sighed. "Dummy. If I bled in a weird place like that I would stay in bed for ages." 

"Wait until you're about eleven," Julia whispered.

"Huh?" Sarah and Nathan said at the same time. 

Julia rolled her eyes at them. She knew a lot more than the average five year old because she read books nonstop and her parents did not sensor the kinds of books she could read.

"LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!" Emily popped in and out of assistance, each time coming closer to the small group of children. Nathan squeezed his eyes shut. Sarah looked down at her stomach, and Julia pushed her nose further into her book. It was bad, really bad when they made eye contact with Emily.

"Fine. You'll be sorry," Emily said in a sing-song voice, before she started to sing an eerie old fashioned sounding lullaby. Instead of the normal lyrics, she added different ones, about pain, and torture, and the things she wanted to do to them and especially their parents. "Don't worry, little children, Emily won't really do you much harm. This is just a game. A game. A GAME! Play with me!"