author's note

There's a girl who lives in London. Nobody knows her name.
She just walks up and down the streets, her hood pulled up over her eyes.
Some say that she's a witch.
Others say that she was in a bad accident, leaving her mute and blind.
Some say she's undead.
The teachers in the nearby school say she's ill - but mentally or physically, nobody knows.
The general rule is to leave her alone, and so the schoolchildren have invented a game: touch her, and you're dead.
Just like Annie Cartridge, the girl who died ten years before. But nobody mentions that.