Content Warning: This section contains descriptions of violence, sexual assault, rape, stalking, child trafficking, pedophilia, and child sacrifice as well as references to domestic abuse, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Adeline notices a shadow of a person outside her window, noting that the shadow is always watching her. She describes how she is terrified of him, but that she is also excited by his presence. Adeline speculates that the shadow likes watching her, but she asserts that she would stab him if he got close to her.

She is in Parsons Manor, a three-story Victorian-style home built by her great-grandparents in the 1940s. Her grandmother told her that five construction workers were killed in a fire during construction, and Adeline seems to believe the house is haunted, as she hears footsteps at night that might belong to her stalker or ghosts.

Adeline characterizes her mother as pessimistic and mean, contrasting her mother with her grandmother, whom she says was positive and kind. On the phone with her mother, Adeline says she wants to live in Parsons Manor though her mother says she should have it torn down. When her mother calls her grandmother “worthless,” Adeline hangs up.