"It hurt me," she answered, quiet but no less emphatic. "It kept me down there," her eyes narrowed as she searched her memory, trying to dispel the cloudiness that lingered around her recollection.

"Those people in the forest, I think they," that thread of a thought was so close to clarity, she couldn't stop herself from prodding at it, despite the way it made her skin crawl.

"Do they push people into the lake?"