These Dreams of You

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If I’m a ghost, can I pass through the maze’s shrubbed walls to the center? Already be there waiting when Sheba gets there? So the girl will know she’s never lost and that Molly will never lose her? The woman knows her own music has faded. She can hear her decrease in volume, she hears herself turned down. When she hears music from the maze, when she hears the girl’s music wind its way back to her, she knows there’s no mistaking it for the echoes of her own.

She follows the music in. She goes right to the girl at the center; Sheba looks up at her. Since Molly came, she hasn’t sucked her thumb until now. “I’ll never lose you again,” Molly says.