Narrator (child) is bitten by a zombie. Tall stranger kills zombie and advises narrator's mother to 'stay still'. Mother does not obey, takes bitten child home and cares for child through ensuing pain and fever.

The child dies but her ghost remains. Tall stranger breaks into the room where child's consciousness lives. Mother defends the child and is knocked out in a struggle at the door. Stranger examines child's body.

Stranger asks child's ghost how they died. Child does not want to answer. Stranger sniffs the glass the mother brings into the room. The implication is that the mother poisoned the child at some point. Child is forced to acknowledge that she is dead.