Marry woke up from her dream literally gasping. The dreams brought pain without any actual physical injury, but enough pain could kill a person just as easily as any wound. She dragged herself out of bed and downstairs to see another new corps in a casket in their living room. Her father was dressing the body up, so it looked like there was going to be another funeral today.<br/><br/>As she was approaching, her father noticed her and stood up to block her view. "I'm sorry Marry," he said, "But this is one you don't want to see."<br/><br/>"One I don't want to see?" Marry asked, "Who was it?"<br/><br/>Her father looked down, a sorrowful expression on his face and deep in his eyes. "It was one of the girls you liked to play with," he said.<br/><br/>"Oh?" Marry asked, leaning around her father to look at the cadaver. The body looked fairly peaceful. It clearly hadn't been an exciting death. But Marry didn't mind in the slightest that this person was gone. She was one of the girls who always teased Marry whenever they got a chance. She would call her mean names and sometimes participate in throwing things at her.<br/><br/>"She fell down the stairs last night," her father said. "I'm so sorry Marry."<br/><br/>Now Marry put on the face that she always showed her father, the one she knew he longed to see. She faked a sad, but peaceful face. "It's alright father," Marry said. "Everyone has to die sometime. I take peace in the assumption that she did not suffer." On the inside, Marry was wishing that she had done the deed herself, and that she might meet the ghost of this girl to pay back her injustices.<br/><br/>Marry's father gave a sad smile and rubbed the top her her head. "I'm sorry I expose you to this stuff so often. Now, run off and play. The funeral isn't until after lunch."<br/><br/>Marry nodded and ran off. Immediately she went to the girl's house, soon spotting her ghost wandering in the lawn. "Hello Jessie," Marry said.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Marry?"</span>Said the ghost of 'Jessie'.<span style="font-style: italic">"You can see me?"</span><br/><br/>"I always told you I could see ghosts," Marry said.<br/><br/>Jessie let out a ragged breath of thankfulness and burst into tears. She went and knelt at Marry's feet.<span style="font-style: italic">"Oh thank god. I've been so scared. Can you pass on a message to my parents? Tell them I'm alright, that I'm still watching them?"</span><br/><br/>Marry then smiled down at her with a look that would send Satan himself running. "No."<span style="font-style: italic">Evangeline,</span>she thought,<span style="font-style: italic">This will be my first use of your power in this new contract.</span>A sigh echoed inside of her and Marry held out her hand. The air seemed to vibrate, and the scream that ensued which the other humans around her could not hear was fit to shatter a man's soul and drag it down into the depths of darkness forever.