“Do you remember which specific doll was inhabited by the dancer’s spirit in your dream? Which doll did she choose to enter?” Mrs. March asked with her head tilted sideways as she studied the dolls.

Marielle tried to focus better as she stared at her dolls.

“I’m not sure at all now,” she replied after a few minutes. “Maybe it will come to me later. Try and see if there’s anything you can do and I will go to assist my grandmother with the baking,” she announced. ...