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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
"meredith was only at my grandmothers lake house once. but i think once was enough." lydia said.
"how did your grandmother know her?" derek asked.
"she didn't. she found her. because of another woman named maddy. the woman she loved." lydia said as she passed a photo to marcie.
"i never met her, but i saw her name everywhere. she used to be part of a yacht racing team. there were plaques and trophies in the lake house from all the regattas she'd won." lydia said.
"how'd she die?" parrish asked.
"how's not the story. it's what happened right before. my grandmother, lorraine, used to work in san francisco for IBM. she was there on a weekend, catching up on work. she started hearing this sound... like rain. but when she looked out the windows... all she saw was blue sky." lydia said.
"but she kept hearing the rain?" scott asked.
"and it just kept getting louder. rain and thunder cracking like gunshots in her head. so loud. she finally just screamed." lydia went on.
"like a banshee." derek said.
"what happened to maddy?" marcie asked.
"she called maddy who was planning on taking one of the boats out on the lake. but maddy said that the sun was shining there too. so lorraine didn't say anything." lydia said.
"there was an accident?" parrish said.
"it took them four days to find maddys body. and then it took decades to figure out how lorraine knew. she started with parapsychologists, like the PhD in their name made it more scientific. they built the study in the lake house according to every pseudoscientific theory they could find. none of it worked. then she started getting into more inextricably things like mediums and psychics." lydia went on.
"but they didn't find anything." marcie said.
"all of them were failures. until meredith. they found her at eichen house. this fragile girl who didn't understand the things she heard. they brought her to the study. and they almost killed her. she was hospitalized for over a year. she... never really recovered. my grandmother drove her insane. and i drove her to suicide. and all she ever wanted to do was help. my grandmother created the code for the deadpool. they think she's the banshee who put the names out in the first place. she left me this message in the same code." lydia said showing them the message.
