The Likeness

Cassie prepares to take Lexie’s nightly walk, but Daniel, Justin, and Abby express concern, most notably Daniel. She assures them she is fine, and Rafe encourages everyone to let her go and says that making a fuss was going to make her more of a drama queen than she already was. Daniel’s questions make her think he might doubt her story. He suggests she take a different route than the other night, but she reminds him of her amnesia. Daniel and Rafe both offer to go with her, but Cassie insists on going alone and leaves with a flashlight and wearing the field jacket they all share. She walks directly to the cottage where detectives found the victim, but nothing from the crime scene remains. Cassie wishes she could talk to the dead girl and warn her of the coming danger. The silence in the cottage gives Cassie a moment to think about her past and recall that in the wake of the Vestal tragedy, she contemplated leaving her life and disappearing. “I moved through my lost life like a ghost, trying not to touch anything with my bleeding hands, and dreamed of learning to sail in a warm place […] telling people sweet soft lies about my past” (140).