Episode Six: Vanished

In which the end is nigh. Featuring: a family history, a shared experience, a desperate hunt, bewilderment, horror, disaster.

Episode description: Something's gone wrong at the Martin house.

Episode Overview
Anna tells Mabel about her uncle Jack, who went missing before Anna was born. Then she finds Sally outside with rose thorns around her ankles, half dead from exposure.

Trigger Warnings:


 * Disappearance, hypothermia, hospitals, death, parental issues, alcohol.

Episode Summary
Anna tells Mabel about her uncle, who went missing in the hills. All that was left of him was a wallet with 600 dollars-- which Anna took to be payment of some form-- along with his shoes. They never found him, leading Anna's mother to raise Anna and her sister with a dosage of world-wariness that affected Anna into adulthood. She hears the doorbell ring, but no one is there, so she goes to wake up Sally and finds her missing.

She calls 911 and runs around the House, finding Sally in the garden looking very, very dead. However, she's still alive, so Anna manages to get her to a hospital. They won't let Anna stay overnight, so she goes to leave, but Sally tells her “I tried to save her. Once I knew, I tried, but it was too late. You believe me, don’t you, Anna?”

Anna asks if she's talking about Lily, and Sally says no. Anna, in a fit of desperation, asks if she was talking about Luna Thorne. Sally says "oh, Anna, I'm so sorry," and the nurse makes Anna leave. Anna ends the call by saying that Sally's safe in the hospital, that she'll go there early tomorrow so Sally can tell her about Luna, then Anna will tell Mabel and the spell will be broken. Everything will be okay.

Oh, Saint Anna, the author of this wiki wishes that were true. You've got a few dozen more episodes to go, honey.

Continuity
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 * Anna calls Mabel the princess in the tower. Mabel, of course, is actually the monster of the story.
 * Sally tried to save Luna-- as Anna realizes later on in the show, you can't just save someone from hell. You've got to love them for all that they are, even in the Underhill. Especially if they're a girl-half-burning.

Trivia
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 * Anna's mother is the youngest of her siblings.
 * Anna only has one sister-- Monica.
 * Lily was meant to go to the hills the day she went missing, presumably to see Juniper.