Chapter 6
Sorry this is so long but you asked me for the reasons, and I have to work up to the big reason in my own way.
One night the police released information about how the child, a small girl, was killed. Since there was no blood found at the scene, they thought she’d been killed somewhere else and carried to the lot. Mother said my father read to me about a possible theory, that this might be a ritual killing, like ancient people sacrificing animals, even humans, in order to change their fates.
Mother noticed something then she hadn’t before: a kind of deadness she said in my father’s eyes, as if the blue in the iris had been drained of color and was replaced with a kind of emptiness. That’s not a color, but you get the idea.