"No, I wasn't drawn." The words came quick on the heels of his last question, as though despite the evasiveness of the memory, she knew that much for sure. Lily looked off to the side, her brow furrowing as she stared into nothingness, her expression pained as though she were trying to solve a very hard math problem with a very bad headache. It was so close, and she wanted it. She deserved to remember all of what happened to her after what that horrible thing in the lake had done to her.

"They put me there, but there weren't any others." Lily looked back to Five, almost relieved to have reclaimed a little more of what had happened, however terrible it was. "They put me in the lake and that thing kept me there," she repeated with new certainty. "It caught me and it didn't release me until dawn. I was close to the banks when Karsa came." The more she talked about it, the more came back.

"Do you know what it is? Or was? The thing in the lake, I mean."