"Her identity, maybe."
Kylie stopped in front of the desk. "How is a bird dying going to tell me who she is?"
"Sometimes the spirits have crazy ways of communicating."
Kylie rolled a few things around her already confused mind, and then she remembered. "Jane Doe has no brain pattern. Nothing. It's blank."
"Blank?" This time Holiday appeared genuinely puzzled.
"Yeah. I kept trying to refocus, thinking I was ... just not seeing it right. Because I thought we all had brain patterns, like fingerprints." Kylie dropped in the chair across from the camp leader.
"I've never seen one that's blank, but..."
"I think she's supernatural." Kylie chewed on the side of her lip.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because she knew about the death angels."
Holiday appeared to consider it. "She probably heard you talking about them."
"Maybe. But ... she's really scared of something."
"Dying can be scary if you're not ready."
"I think it's more," Kylie said.
"More like what?"
"I don't know yet. But it's ... something."
"Wait." Holiday pressed a hand on the desk. "Didn't you tell me she had some kind of brain operation?"
"Yes." Kylie touched her temple. "She has stitches and her head is shaved."
"It's probably a tumor. I've never seen anyone with one, but I've heard tumors can make one's brain pattern do strange things."
"But can a tumor make it disappear?" Kylie asked. "And what about her getting freaked out when I asked her what she was? I really think she's supernatural."
"I'm not saying she isn't one of us, but ... rarely do we supernaturals hang around long after we pass. In all my years of dealing with ghosts, I've only had three supernaturals."
"But my dad hung around."
"But he had a very big reason to hang on. To check in on you."
Kylie pulled her leg up in the chair and hugged her shin. Her mind zipped from the ghost to her dad to the ghost again. "I don't know ... There's something about her that's ... different. Remember, she told me she had messages from others."
"That's not unusual. I often get spirits who tell me something for someone else." Holiday rolled a pencil between her hands.
"But from the death angels?" Kylie asked.
"No, but like I said, she could have heard you mention the death angels and simply be confusing things. Has she mentioned the message again?"
"Yeah. Every time, like it's important." Kylie frowned. "She keeps saying that someone lives and someone dies. And I don't like the die part." She hugged her knee tighter.
"Me either," Holiday said. "But as you've learned, ghosts aren't the best communicators. So don't panic. Just keep asking questions and watching for clues."
"Is it possible that the only reason she's here is to give me this message?"
"Rarely. She's probably here for something else."
Kylie frowned. "Then how the heck am I going to help her if she doesn't even remember who she is?"
Holiday dropped her chin in the palm of her hand. "I think this might be a difficult one."
"As if any that I've had have been easy." Kylie tightened her hold on her leg. "There's one thing I want to check out."
"What's that?"
"Fallen Cemetery. I know you said she could have come from anywhere, but I still find it odd that this is where she popped into my mom's car."
Holiday pinched her brows together. "I'm not going to tell you not to go, but cemeteries aren't the best place for a ghost whisperer. By now you should be able to see more than just one ghost, and a lot of ghosts hang around the cemeteries for a long time."
Kylie remembered. "At Nana's funeral I got a terrible headache."
"That was probably them trying to get through to you. And that was before you could see them. Sometimes they can come at you all at once and it gets ... difficult."
"But if that's the only lead I have, I have to try."
"You don't have to," Holiday argued. "In the beginning, I wouldn't have ever refused to help a spirit. But I learned that sometimes you have to say no for your own sanity."
"But they'll just keep coming back."
Holiday tilted her head a bit. "Don't you remember us talking about how to shut them out?"
Kylie frowned. "I remember, but I haven't mastered that so well."
"We could go over it again, but..." Holiday looked at her watch. "I have an appointment-"
"I want to help her. There's something about her." Kylie might not have amnesia, but there was so much about her life she didn't know, things she wanted to know.
Holiday nodded. "I understand. And I'll support whatever you feel is right. But just make sure you check with me before going, and ... as Burnett said earlier, you're not to go anywhere without a shadow."
"I'm not too keen on the whole shadow thing," she said.
"Just until we see how things go."
Kylie bit down on her lip, remembering the other things she needed to discuss with Holiday. The whole healing and protector issues. Not to mention the questions she had about her sudden overpowering effect on Derek's emotions.
Then there was ... She would never get rid of the shadows if she confessed her other concerns. But to not discuss them was stupid. And Kylie wasn't stupid. "Are our security cameras set for ... shape-shifters?"
Holiday leaned forward. "I'm sure they are. Why?"
"It's probably nothing, but a couple of things happened. They could be nothing, but they didn't feel like nothing."
Holiday stopped rolling the pencil in her hands. "What kind of things?"
"When I left to go back to the cabins, I came across a rattlesnake, but I didn't see it until an eagle swooped down and snatched it up. It was freaky."
"Did it go after you?" Concern darkened her green eyes.
"No, it never got the chance. But the whole thing was just strange."
"Strange like how?"
"The eagle just swooped down." Kylie suddenly felt as if she were overreacting.