"Cain!" DG stopped in her tracks, surprised and embarrassed. She dropped her armful of snow, reaching up to tuck a piece of hair behind her ear with a sheepish smile. “Hey.”

The ghost of her sister hovered behind her for a moment, impervious to the cold but not to the arrival of a stranger. After a moment, she disappeared as quickly as she’d arrived.

“We were building a snowman.”

Which was true, though there was still a lot that her explanation didn’t cover.