Lost Creek Hollow Redemption

"A teacher?" Sarah arched an eyebrow, wondering, what was Gannet trying to learn and whether it was something he had mentioned last time and she had simply forgotten about it. Whatever it was though, the fellow seemed quite content and she was happy for him because of that.

"I am barely keeping it together," she admitted truthfully. "It's getting worse again..." There had been a honey-moon period she had happily shared with the hallucination of Osprey, but now it was over. It was hard to recall sometimes, what her mother looked like. And nightmares had returned as well. Not full-fledged and downright scary as they had been previously, but even small snippets of them were enough to cause a sleepless night.

"I think... I will leave the hollow," she added quietly, giving Gannet a searching look. His opinion was suddenly valuable to her, even if she would still do as she had intended.