Mom ghost

abduction

Let me introduce you a little to the inhabitants of a small town, which was located on the banks of the river. Accordingly, the town was also not very far from the mythical Sanzu River. The city was not big, but still not small. Everything happened in this city, there were happy events, and there were out of the ordinary. Well, like this, for example ...
Everything happened very quickly. A black car pulled up. The door opened, and a man approached the nurse, who was reading a book on a bench and mechanically rocking the carriage, and asked about something. The woman raised her hand to show the direction and lost consciousness. When she came to, she found herself lying in the grass behind the bench she had been sitting on before the man approached her. Moaning and holding her head, she slowly approached the carriage. It was very quiet. So quiet that the woman's heart skipped a beat. Still hoping for something, she leaned over the carriage. At some point, she thought that everything was in order. She even heard the baby's soft, sleepy sniffling. But the saving obsession immediately melted away as soon as she saw Claudia's favorite rattle under the stroller. The carriage was hopelessly empty. Mechanically brushing off the rattle and straightening the lace pillow that had slipped to its side, the nanny set off on wobbly legs to the mansion, where they were looking forward to kissing, feeding, bathing and putting the baby to bed. When there were a few steps to the mansion, not a young woman realized that she could not stand it any longer. The bubble of silence, which grew larger and larger in her head, pressed on her ears and eyes, threatening to blow her head. The gates of the mansion were already beginning to slide aside as the woman covered her ears and screamed at the top of her lungs.
At this time, a black car was already driving through the gates of an old house, almost a castle, which was now supposed to become a temporary home for little Claudia. The house was uninhabited, but on the second floor the baby was given a crib, which was found somewhere in the basement. The bed was old but in good condition. This made the kidnappers very happy. They were afraid that the neighbors would pay attention to the strange fuss in the non-residential building.
Neighbor houses did not stand right next to the castle house. Rich people don't live close to each other. Next to each house there were huge lawns, almost fields, but still ...
The kidnappers were very afraid that their carefully planned kidnapping would not fail because of someone's overly attentive eyes. Moreover, in the basement they found not only a crib, but also other pieces of furniture, probably intended for a nursery. However, the kidnappers didn't need anything else. They weren't going to furnish the nursery. A crib, that's all they needed at the moment. One of the kidnappers hinted at buying at least a mattress and bed linen for the baby, but was stopped by the contemptuous look of the girl, who was clearly in charge, although she was three heads shorter than the other two members of the gang. But, despite this, the men were clearly afraid of their chieftain. The crib was in good condition, but still stood for a number of years in the basement and accumulated enough dust in itself, so when one of the kidnappers placed the small one right on the wooden bottom of the crib, dust rose. And the baby started sneezing. She sneezed harder and harder, and then burst into tears. The kidnapper took her in his arms and stood bewildered near the bed, not knowing what to do next. But Claudia continued to cry, she blushed terribly, then turned pale, then began to be covered with spots. Moisture leaked out of the small spout.
There was a pause. Finally, the chieftain, looking at the men with hatred, went to look for water and rags. Water was found quickly. Strange as it may seem, but the bathroom in the house - the castle was in pretty good condition, but the angry woman, no matter how she looked, could not find the rags. Returning back to the nursery even more furious, she looked withering eyes at the men. Finally deciding that it was useless to wait for their help, she tore the baby from the hands of the man. He, not expecting such decisive action, was frightened and dropped a warm bag. The girl fell and probably hit hard, because she screamed briefly and immediately fell silent. Silence hung, and in this silence it became clearly audible how, somewhere near the abductors, some woman cried out sadly and indignantly. Both men shuddered as if on cue, but the dwarf did not even move her ear.
- Thank God! she grumbled.
Zlyuka tore the flannelette blanket in which Claudia was wrapped, unwrapped the girl, pulling out the bottom diaper from under her, turned her nose in displeasure and went to the bathroom with this diaper. Returning, she wiped the dust and dirt from the crib with a wet diaper and, spreading the girl's blanket on the bottom of the crib, casually threw the baby as an inanimate object. Looking with satisfaction at her handiwork, she spoke.
"What would you do without me!"
And threw a wet and dirty diaper next to the crib.
Suddenly, although the windows were tightly and long closed, avery strong draft. So strong that one of the kidnappers could barely keep on his feet, and Claudia woke up and began to cry. The atamansha again became very irritated.
- Well, that's it, it's time to call the parents of this squeaky. I think they are already ripe!
One of the men tried clumsily to wrap the naked baby in the remaining diaper, but was stopped by the woman's impatient squeal.

"Nothing will happen to her during the half hour we'll be away!"

Unfortunately, I do not know what demands the abductors wanted to put forward. Because the parents did not wait for any news about their girl. No call, no letter.
It wasn't long before the marked lane, where the pre-selected pay phone stood, when the car's brakes failed. Only the kidnapper who treated the baby with sympathy survived, but, unfortunately, he could not tell anyone anything, because as a result of the accident he lost his memory.

  LOST

Meanwhile, the little girl was gradually freezing. She had already stopped crying, there was less and less strength left in her small body. Especially since she was hungry
They had to feed her after the walk. But the kidnappers did not even think that the baby might be hungry. Exhausted from crying, the girl fell asleep. Several times she sobbed ruefully in her sleep, her wet cheeks visibly pale. Suddenly a gust of wind swirled the dust of many years around the crib. The circle narrowed more and more, and suddenly the dust particles thickened, and a female silhouette became visible. The silhouette began to bend over the crib and stretched out his arms, as if he intended to take the baby in his arms, when suddenly the girl began to sneeze again. The silhouette recoiled in fright and wrung its arms. The girl sneezed harder and harder, then whimpered weakly. A ball of dust twitched in fright and, whirling wildly, instantly flew across the room and stopped at the front door.
Claudia continued to sneeze. A drop of blood appeared from a small nose. The ghost, and it was precisely the ghost of a woman, was in despair. The ghost woman was once a mother too, and the little girl in need of help reminded the ghost of her days when she was human. The ghost once again tried to help and ... Oh, miracle, he succeeded! This happened at the moment when all the ghosts near the Sanzu River regained their memories and suddenly gained supernatural powers. The ghost woman began to act. Without wasting a minute, the dust clot turned into a kind of vacuum cleaner. In the blink of an eye, all the dust was collected in one place. The slam of the door, and there was neither silhouette nor dust in the room.
But this could no longer help the little girl. She swallowed the dust and began to choke. The door opened again, and a woman's silhouette appeared in the room. The same one, but only framed by the smallest droplets of water. The girl was breathing harder and harder. The silhouette leaned over the crib and held out its arms. Droplets rolled down her outstretched arms, and soon Claudia was wrapped in a diaper of the smallest droplets of water. The coughing did not stop immediately, but gradually her chest stopped shaking, and the little doll opened her eyes. The baby looked like two and a half or three months old, and she already knew how to do a lot. For example, smile and hum. Now she hasn't wobbled. On an empty stomach, you can't talk much in your baby language. But smile...
Yes, as much as you want! And it doesn't matter who is standing in front of you, a living woman or a ghost.
Wrapping the baby in a cocoon of water, the silhouette turned into a woman. Of course, into an inanimate woman, you could see through her, as you can see the river bottom through the water, but still she acquired some volumes and proportions, albeit very transparent ones.
Meanwhile, the water was completely absorbed into the girl's naked body, the girl grunted with satisfaction and peed herself. As time went. The ghost woman stood near the crib and did not take her eyes off the baby, and she, finally realizing that no one was running to change her wet for dry, began to show signs of impatience again. The whimpering turned first to a cry, then to a roar. The woman tried to pick up the baby in her arms, but of course, she did not succeed. The inanimate cannot help the living. Even with all the desire! The girl was crying, the woman was pacing back and forth without touching the floor and wringing her hands in despair. By evening, the meager autumn sun had completely left the room and the room became quite cold. The house was not heated, as it was uninhabited.
Night shadows crawled into the house, and the girl wept, then fell asleep again. The ghostly woman was not in the room. Finally the door creaked and she appeared. She was followed by two dogs. One dog carried a bundle in its teeth, in which a bottle of food was wrapped, the other a blanket. Probably, there was no baby blanket, and therefore the dog dragged a huge blanket behind him, part of which dragged along the ground. At the woman's silent command, one of the dogs jumped into the crib and placed the bottle next to Claudia's mouth. The hungry girl, feeling the smell of milk, not only cried, but screamed, but she could not reach the bottle with a pacifier. At almost three months old, she could only toss and turn in place, but not crawl at all.. The girl screamed, the woman again began to wring her transparent hands, and the dog with the blanket suddenly howled, for which he was immediately punished by the woman's angry look. The look was sobering. The dog immediately remembered his duties, whimpered and pulled the blanket closer to the bed. But that was all she could do. Naturally, she could not lift the blanket and cover the baby with it. Meanwhile, the little one did not calm down. The smell of milk, food that was so close and so inaccessible, made her scream more and more. Apparently the woman again ordered something to the dog that delivered the bottle. The dog pushed the bottle directly to the hungry baby's mouth, but apparently he did not calculate his strength and the nipple went deep into the baby's throat, the girl choked and began to choke again, which time during this short day. The dogs howled in two voices, but the woman paid no attention to this. But in vain. The dogs howled so loudly and funerally that someone was not too lazy to open the gate, go through a piece of land overgrown with grass in front of the castle and, cursing loudly, throw a stone at the window of the nursery. The glass shattered, letting the evening dampness into the room, and the woman shuddered and, leaning over the baby, suddenly pulled the bottle with the pacifier out of her mouth. However, the bottle immediately fell out of transparent hands, but that was enough. The baby stopped panting and turning blue, but then she screamed again. The main goal has remained unattained. The girl was left hungry. The girl screamed, and the vandal who had broken the window fled as fast as he could. He imagined it was a ghost screaming. There have been vague rumors about the house for a long time. Not that it was given the status of a haunted house, no! But still, something happened there. What and when, the residents of neighboring houses did not remember very clearly. Or maybe they didn't know at all. But... No, don't think, someone lived in this house all the time, or rather, tried to live. People bought a house, put things in order. Bought new furniture. True, they never had time to import it. Something happened, mostly happy. Winning, inheritance and so on. In general, so happy that people were blown away by the wind from a wretched house (it immediately began to seem like that to them against the backdrop of fallen wealth). People left for big cities, overseas countries, and the “For Sale!” sign appeared again on the gates of the house. For those who bought a castle house in order to live far from the city, in nature, there were their decoys.
The house was bought and immediately sold. A significant role in this was played by the ghost woman, who was now standing in front of the crib.
Claudia was very small, but that doesn't mean she was brainless. Rather the opposite. Having understood that crying for some reason today does not affect adults, she decided to change tactics. Looking straight into the woman's eyes, the baby began to gurgle and gurgle, and then even smiled. However, without receiving a return smile and words of adoration, she almost burst into tears again. Well, who will understand these big and caring giants. The woman standing near the crib, instead of smiling back at Claudia, suddenly began to silently cry.
Transparent tears rolled down her face and disappeared no one knows where.
Meanwhile, the girl was pretty tired of the forced diet, and she began to cry again.
In the autumn silence, the sound from the broken window came from far, far away. The dogs, having decided that it was enough for the little one to scream solo, decided to join. The trio sounded amazing. So amazing that one of the not very close neighbors was about to come running. Every once in a while, a voice would come forward. Either the little girl drowned out the dog's howl with her roar, then the dogs joined forces and ... All this time the woman stood still, only from time to time her eyes anxiously ran from the crib to the broken window. Finally, she seemed to have made up her mind. And... Disappeared from the room. However, she immediately reappeared and, giving an inaudible order to the dogs, disappeared again. The dogs immediately fell silent and jumped into the crib one by one. The baby whimpered a little more, and fell asleep, warmed on both sides by dog bodies. And the room fell silent for a moment. Not more than an hour passed, when suddenly the sound of an approaching car was heard from the street, the door slammed and shuffling steps were heard. For a while, the footsteps died away, as if the person walking towards the castle house was very old and needed a rest. So, resting and resuming their path again, someone was steadily approaching the front door. The girl was asleep, but the dogs had long since woken up and were sitting near the door leading out of the nursery, their ears raised warily. One of them tried to yelp, but then fell silent as she heard Claudia shift and whimper in her sleep. The front door slammed and there was silence again. The dogs got even more excited. The guest who entered the house moved in a strange rhythm, two or four steps, and silence for about five minutes, but still moved. When there were a few steps left to the nursery, the dogs could not stand it and barked at the top of their voices. The girl, of course, instantly woke up and raised a cry. The steps stopped, and the ghostly mistress of the house reappeared in the room. Dogs immediately calm downsighed and wagged their tails happily. With a baby, things were not so simple. She was not at all reassured by the appearance of a woman in the room. On the contrary, when she saw that someone had appeared in the room to whom one could complain about hunger and cold, she began to wail even louder. In the meantime, the stranger, who had reached the nursery with such difficulty, turned the knob on the door and finally entered. It was one of the kidnappers. The one that survived the accident. His appearance was terrible. He moved like a zombie, and in fact he was now. The ghost woman moved his arms and legs. Not a single emotion was reflected on his face when he clumsily swaddled the baby, fed her from a bottle, covered her with a blanket. On these simple actions, he apparently expended the last of his strength. The ghost woman's order caught him when the nurse had just left the room, putting him on a drip after the operation. Clumsily pulling out the needle and somehow stopping the blood, he moved away from the ward, urged on by the order. Already leaving the hospital, he fell and got up only after the mistress of the castle had to make some mental efforts. It was clear that he could not reach the castle house on foot. The woman had to make sure that the wounded man could leave in the first empty car he could hobble to. And now he is here. Obeying the order, the man carefully put the bottle into the girl's mouth and held it until the girl had eaten, and after the girl had eaten, he covered her with a blanket. When the hostess tried to force him to insert something else instead of broken glass, he simply fell before reaching the window. The mistress of the castle shook her head reproachfully, but there was nothing to do, this night the nursery would be open to all autumn winds. However, the girl was full and covered. And autumn fogs, and bad weather, were not terrible for her, especially since the dog duo had already taken their place on two sides of the sleeping one. But what to do with the wounded? The man was breathing heavily and hoarsely. If left in this state, and even under a broken window, he may not last until the morning. An hour has passed. Then another. The woman did not take any action, but did not leave the room either. Suddenly there was the sound of a car pulling up, and the room was lit up by flashes of a police flasher. A little later, the sound of a door being opened was heard, and the hall on the first floor was filled with the noise of voices. The voices belonged to two or three people.
They were arguing about something. The dogs that guarded the baby's sleep woke up a long time ago, but did not try to make a voice, obeying the woman's gaze. The baby woke up too. Even the wounded man began to show some signs of life, apparently hearing the voices of people through his delusional state.
Suddenly, one of the men whistled, and silence fell for a while in the hall on the first floor. And then he said, lowering his voice a little.
“I don't know about the baby or what else Mr. Greg heard screaming, but it's absolutely certain that a bleeding man walked through here just recently.
And these drops of blood lead to the second floor. Let me...
— No, Steve, I don't like all this. Let me call for reinforcements, said the voice belonging to the second man.
- Nonsense. What if there's nothing up there? A lot of people will come here and make fun of us. As last time. And Ellie... Ellie, what's the matter with you? What are you listening to?
For example, I can't hear anything! Ellie...
- Quiet, - a woman's voice was heard, - I really heard the whimpering of a baby!
But so quiet ... Here again! Can't you hear?
- I can not hear. - said the man, who was called Steve, - Yes, what is there to guess! Let's go up to the second floor and everything will become clear. And you, Phil, if you decide to be careful, stay here. If anything, we will whistle for you, and you will rush to call for reinforcements.
And so they did. One of the men remained below. And the woman and the man began to climb the stairs. They managed to take only a few steps up, when the steps creaked menacingly, and dust fell down from above.
“You do what you want, but I won’t go any further. Call the brigade. Let them reinforce the ladder, and then…” the woman said, going back down.
- Well, Ellie, I did not expect this from you! I still understand when Phill is being cautious, but you... Well, - seeing that the woman went down the stairs and approached Phil, Steve summed up - continue to tremble with fear! I'll go alone then. Saying this, Steve briskly ran up a few more steps. It seemed that the corridor of the second floor was within easy reach, when the stairs suddenly crumbled into separate planks and dust. The railing on the right side collapsed, and the left ones stood as if nothing had happened. This saved Steve. He held on to the baluster and yelled in a bad voice that Phill would call the rescuers. The same rescuers whose help he had so proudly refused a few minutes ago. There was a commotion. Steve screamed. Ellie encouraged. Phil yelled into the radio. And behind all this noise, no one heard how a little girl burst into tears, frightened by the noise, dogs barked, and the wounded man who came to his senses groaned. However, by the time the rescuers arrived and removed the daredevil Steve from above, it had long been quiet on the second floor. When the rescue teamLei, having dealt with Steve's problem, reached the nursery, they were met only by one of the dogs, and the wounded man was barely audible moaning. There was no one else in the nursery. The house creaked dangerously. And so the rescuers did not meddle in the rest of the rooms. Wrapping the wounded man in the blanket that was left in the crib, and grabbing a dirty diaper, they began to descend. The dog did not follow them. However, the absence of the dog was discovered already when they were on the ground. One of the rescuers volunteered to return for the dog, but was stopped by tiles that suddenly fell from the roof. The wind got stronger. The old house began to groan and sway dangerously. The wounded man screamed and began to escape from the hands of the rescuers, then went limp and lost consciousness. Rescuers waved their hand and decided to get out for good and healthy before it's too late. As soon as the noise of the engines subsided in the distance, everything calmed down. The wind calmed down, the house stopped swaying, and in the silence that followed, the cry of the baby and the whining of the dogs were heard again.
The ways of the Lord are inscrutable, and therefore there is nothing surprising in the fact that less than two days have passed, as the wounded and taken just in case by the rescuers diaper, were identified by the inconsolable nanny. The millstones of justice grind very slowly, but in this case, the fact that the girl's family was not just rich, but very rich, played a role. The diaper was very easy to identify. Even in the state in which she was found under the crib, she held her gaze. When Claudia was two months old, the best photographer was invited. The results of his labors were now applied to the diaper, and next to each photograph was the name of the girl, written in huge letters. However, not only the diaper was designed this way, but also all the rest of the girl's underwear. The fantasy of rich people has no limits! But, unfortunately, the investigation did not advance further than the identification of the diaper. The wounded man was unconscious. And in the short moments of enlightenment, he carried all sorts of nonsense about dogs, transparent women, old houses.
A special person was sitting next to the wounded man, who wrote down everything word for word, but so far there was no mention of the girl. Even in the most hazy delusional memories, the wounded man did not name a single name of his dead accomplices and did not mention the kidnapped baby. A week has passed since the kidnapping, and still there were no results. The girl's father, alone and together with Phill and Ellie, went to that house several times, but his research did not advance further than the ground floor hall. Ellie doubted she heard the baby's cry. One day, about a week later, a woman drove up to the old mansion. It was the girl's mother. She secretly left the house, having previously added sleeping pills to the nurse's tea. The half-crazed woman knew that if her husband found out that she was there, he would take all measures so that she would never leave the house alone again. This family had its own difficulties that could not be eliminated even with very large amounts of money. The woman timidly entered the house and felt that she was about to fall. It took too much effort for her to get out of the house and get here. Sitting down on the floor and panting, she looked around. The house did not tremble or crumble. Everything was quiet. But, nevertheless, there was still no access to the second floor. The floor was dirty and somehow slippery, and the woman fell. However, Irene, that was the name of the girl's mother, showed no emotion when she saw that she had slipped into the mud, losing consciousness. On the contrary, some thought related to this dirt flashed through her brain, and she tried her best to hold it in her fading consciousness. It was very difficult, thoughts rushed about without stopping and I really wanted to sleep. Feeling that her eyes were about to close, Irene began to beat her cheeks. Very much. It helped for a while. She was even able to get up and go where, for some reason, no one had yet guessed to poke her head. Into the basement. There was nothing left until the basement door when Irene realized that she was beginning to fall asleep again. And then she laughed! She thought the tea tasted strange. She gave the nurse tea with sleeping pills to drink, not knowing that she had already poured the same or almost the same powder into her cup! Laughter cheered up Irene for a while, she tried to remember something pleasant, but her thoughts again began to get confused. Then she began to pinch herself, but fell asleep, feeling the pain from the useless pinching on her arms. The awakening was difficult. I had a headache and was very nauseous. Irene thought she was still in the clinic. Her baby will not be born soon, and nausea will torment her and torment her. His head was splitting so that it was scary to open his eyes. And it was very cold. “I must have had an attack again,” the woman thought languidly, “and these are its consequences.” The woman tried to grope and pull the blanket over her, but nothing came of it. She opened her eyes in surprise, wondering where the medical staff, who usually listened and watched all her movements and desires, were. She opened her eyes all the way, but saw nothing. It was absolutely dark. Irene groped under her. She lay on the bed. Probably, such a bed was at the birthoil Irene. True, they hardly slept on it without a mattress. The bare springs hurt my back. Still not understanding anything, the woman began to rise. A hand slid over her flat stomach, and, instantly remembering everything, the woman screamed in despair. She's not at the clinic. Her daughter was already born and she was stolen. Turning awkwardly, she tried to get out of bed, but immediately screamed from a terrible headache. It seemed that this pain could not be extinguished by anything, but then it happened that Irene immediately forgot about the pain, although she did not think to retreat anywhere! The woman heard the cry of the baby. And not just some baby, but his own. She would never confuse this voice with any other. Her daughter was screaming! Stumbling in the darkness, Irene followed the voice. But then she stopped. The crying of the baby was joined by the barking of dogs. The woman was afraid and hated dogs since childhood. More than anything, Irene would like her husband to be here now and make a decision for her, or, at worst, she would not refuse to fall asleep again or faint. But her husband was not around, and she slept wonderfully, and, therefore, something had to be done. Having taken a few steps towards the screaming daughter, Irene stopped, and then again stepped back. She couldn't help herself! She loved her girl, but fear was stronger than love. It has always been so in everything. Any fear was stronger than any love! The woman decided that nothing would be done to Claudia while Irene got out of the house and called people for help. People will drive out the nasty dogs, she will take her Claudia, and then ... Irene saw a flash in front of her and understood. that for quite a long time, about five minutes, hears a voice. Such a quiet voice. Quiet, but overshadowing Claudia's screams and barking dogs. Because the voice was in her head. The voice persistently urged her not to be afraid of anything and to go to Claudia. He assured her that as soon as she found the strength to turn around and go back to her daughter, the dogs would shut up and generally get out. Irene turned. And then the barking of the dogs stopped and someone, probably they, rushed past the woman. The door flew aside, the dogs jumped out into the street, daylight flashed, which, however, was immediately replaced by darkness, as the door automatically slammed behind the dogs. The dogs ran away, but Irene became even more frightened. There was someone else besides her and Claudia. And although this someone did not show hostility, it was still scary! Claudia calmed down and began to hum, calling out to her mother, in the way that very young children can do. Time has gone. Irene physically felt it flow past her. Finally, gathering all her strength, she went to Claudia. Despite the fact that the room was still dark, the woman began to see in the dark. But this vision had nothing to do with ordinary vision. As if... As if she was looking through someone else's eyes. A few more steps and Claudia would have been in her arms, but at that moment the door swung open and, although the light blinded Irene, she knew who was standing in the daylight. She knew, but stubbornly pretended that nothing had happened. Stretching out her hands to the place where only a second ago Claudia lay and the ghostly woman stood, Irene shouted:
- Well, why, why did you come? I found her! And now because of you...
The man turned purple with anger and already raised his hand to strike, but then, apparently remembering that he had not come alone, lowered his hand and spoke in a soft, lisp voice.
“Irene, what are you doing to yourself?” Look at you, what you look like! Let's go home, they'll give you an injection, and you'll calm down!
"No, I know what you'll do first when we're alone!" You will beat me!
And then you will tell everyone that I had a seizure, and I fell!
“Irene, what are you…” the man began to say, but the woman interrupted him.
“My daughter was just here! And you came and frightened her, but I will run again and find her!
Apparently delighted that the woman is showing clear signs of insanity and that his wife can be safely sent to a clinic for the mentally ill, the man turned to his wife in an even sweeter voice
- Let's go, my dear! You are not well! Let's go to!
Glancing back at the place where her baby lay a few minutes ago, the woman obediently went to the man. Her fuse dried up, and she again returned to her usual, submissive state.
The man carefully put the woman in the car. He said goodbye to the representatives of the authorities who got into another car and, moving a little to the side of the car where his wife was sitting, he said to his assistant.
- Wipe the house off the face of the earth. Today!
The assistant began to babble something about the owners of the house, but Irene's husband only waved him off.
- Nonsense. Find owners, buy a house. And then destroy!
The last thing the woman saw as she drove away from the house was the silhouette of two dogs standing in the doorway. From a distance, they seemed not at all scary, and Irene mentally asked them to take care of her girl. And the dogs seemed to understand her, because they barked after her and wagged their tails in a friendly manner.
The ghost woman has been studying all week. I learned to take material objects in my hands. She didn't do very well. Or rather, it didn't work at all. Once upon a time, in my own landme of life, she was a lethargic weak-willed creature, like Irene, but now, suddenly emerging from oblivion and not quite understanding why this happened, she studied. How funny it sounds in relation to a non-living person, but she had the meaning of life! A few years ago, a young man who lived next door tried to figure out the history of this abandoned house, delved into the archives, in the church book, but when the research was almost completed, a happy event happened, the young man fell in love. When the peak of love passed and the matter began to move towards the wedding, the young man realized it, but the records were gone. Either the maid threw them away, or he himself, somewhere, mechanically removed them. Then, after the wedding, the young people went on a honeymoon trip, then ... Then there were many more happy events, and only two years later the man decided to resume research, but the necessary documents were not found either in the mayor's office or in the church archives. There was a long investigation, but everything was unsuccessful. Something, of course, was deposited in the head of the prospector, but these were vague and scattered facts, although the man never complained from memory. The only thing he remembered well about the men was that the last mistress of the house was named Anna. There was also some strange story with the relatives of Anna's husband, with her husband himself, Anna's daughter - baby Olivia. Olivia was either kidnapped, or she herself was lost, and Anna committed suicide. The age of her daughter was rumored to be about eighteen years old, or maybe she was a baby eight months old. In general, there were many rumors, but which ones were true - it was unknown. What happened to the rest of the family was also unknown. This was not reflected in the archives. But the date of their death was not given. There were only the dates of the death of Anna's husband. The young man sent a request to the central archive, but he received a very polite, but negative answer. All data on this family is in the department of the Federal Security Bureau. However, if the man is a relative, then some options are possible. The man was not related. And his investigations stalled before they even started. So, now you know that the ghost woman, who in earthly life was called Anna, has been trying with all her ghostly powers for two hundred years to prevent any interference in her affairs, be it the affairs of bygone days, as in the case of a young man, or business related to the purchase of a house, to which, against her will, she was tied for so many years. The ghost woman was waiting for something. Decades passed after decades, and nothing changed for her. To some extent, it could even be called life. Yes, Anna lived, and her life did not end. She felt that life was flowing past her, but she felt somehow sluggish. She seemed to be sleeping. And then a little girl appeared and Anna woke up. All her thoughts and feelings sharpened. Anna became attached to the girl, but was ready to help Irene when she appeared in the house. She recognized herself in the weak-willed woman, as she was two hundred years ago, and was ready for anything, no matter what history would repeat, but the inertia was too strong, and Irene gave up. But this was only half the trouble, the whole trouble was that now danger threatened Anna's house. Anna could have prevented the catastrophe if she had first found those who now owned the house, because without the consent of the current owners, no one would dare to destroy the house. Anna could be transported, but for very short distances, and only at night, as was the case with a wounded kidnapper. During the day she was tied to the house with invisible ropes. And the owner, or rather the mistress of the house, lived very far away, on the other side of the country. Of course, with the current development of technology, distance was not an obstacle. It only takes the girl's father to pick up the phone... Anna realized that the house was worth nothing, and if they offered a good price for it, then... There was hope, but very little. The current mistress of the house was a distant, very distant relative of Anna. Anna had a sister a long time ago, and her sister had a daughter. And this woman, on whom so much now depended, was the great-granddaughter or great-great-granddaughter of that daughter. So she was Anna's great-grandniece. Naturally, the woman who owned an absolutely useless house did not know about any relationship with Anna.

Today Claudia was capricious. This, despite the fact that she was fed, lay clean and warm. During the time that Anna spent with the baby, it was easier for her to take care of the girl herself. Of course, the dogs helped with all their canine strength, because Anna, as you already know, could not appear on the street during the day, but she learned to cope with feeding and caring for the girl herself. Until today, everything was wonderful, and then the invasion of uninvited guests, if I can say that about Claudia's mother and father, ruined everything. There were no reasons for frustration, but the girl became capricious. She was crying harder and harder. Neither the hundred-year-old rattles nor the lullaby helped. In addition, the window in the nursery was still broken and the visit of unexpected guests would not have to wait long. And then an idea came into Anna's head.for an idea. She had no one to discuss it with, no one to point out to the ghostly woman that the idea was not good, and therefore, as soon as this idea arose in Anna's head, she immediately decided to bring it to life. She had just been standing in the nursery of the old house, and now she was in Irene's bedroom and handed her crying baby to the frightened woman. Seeing her mother, Claudia instantly calmed down, and Irene, on the contrary, became agitated and began to push her daughter away from her.
“Go away, get out,” she said, turning to Anna, “he explained everything to me. You only seem to me, and my girl, together with you, only seems. He explained to me that the wounded man came to his senses and told about everything. We concluded that Claudia would hardly have been able to endure the trials that her captors condemned her to, leaving the girl alone, half-dressed and hungry, in that house.
He said I made everything up. He promised that he would not beat me again if I promised that I would not remember my daughter. He said that we would still have children and ... Go away, I don't want to see you! I do not see you. Go away!
The woman began to fight in hysterics and scream. A nurse ran into the room and tried to give Irene an injection. She did not give up and fought in the hands of a nurse. Anna watched Irene struggle with sympathy and some disgust, and for a moment she forgot about Claudia. Until the girl reminded herself of herself. Holding out her hands to Irene, she hummed and laughed. The nurse threw the syringe on the floor and ran away screaming, while Irene, on the contrary, calmed down and said:
"Go away and don't come back!" I do not see you.
However, Anna decided to make another attempt, she raised her finger, and, unexpectedly, following this short movement, a rumble was heard in the depths of the house. Anna listened, yes, something bad was happening. The water that left the Sanzu River did not completely disappear, it was absorbed into the ground. But, as you know, nothing disappears without a trace. And the water was ready to come out. Baby Claudia's home was the first to be destroyed. Anna tensed even more, as if she was trying to hear something, and finally her efforts were crowned with success. The four escaped ghosts drove all the soaking water under Irene's house. The ghosts, precisely those who escaped the fate of being captured by the dragons, obeyed the strange call. They heard this call as soon as the world earthquake began. The world will never be the same again, not only people understood this, but ghosts also understood this. The ancient evil, enclosed in the bowels of the earth, woke up at the moment when the earth trembled. Evil took a quick look at the ground and directed the ghosts to where the water had accumulated. A little more and the irreparable would have happened, the water was supposed to destroy Irene's house. Anna saw all this with an inner eye and instantly made a decision. She leaned over to Claudia and whispered something to the baby. The baby looked up at the ghost mommy, and then an event unheard of in the history of mankind happened, the three-month-old baby clearly pronounced the word “Mom”. Irene shuddered. It was no longer possible to pretend that she was only imagining her daughter. She thought for a moment, then held out her hands. Anna gently lowered the baby into her mother's arms. At that moment, the house shook. However, evil was already powerless. Irene held her daughter in her arms, and the water went into the depths of the earth.