Saving Ellie

We are moving house but leaving someone behind: someone who no longer wants to face the future in our beautiful Victorian home.

Ellie has never been a problem for any of the previous occupants, yet now she is agitated. Since we have been here, we have known of the lost, gentle soul who is unable to move on. Trapped here, somehow.

Ellie has never been a problem for any who have resided in Meadowgate. It has always been a happy home. However, as my family have decided to leave, things change, for something evil is approaching. A mysterious character wants to buy our property. To Ellie, he represents a terrible danger because he has no interest in the house. It is Ellie's cupboard he wants, for he knows what lies within. It is Ellie.

This is a record of all my family went through during a few summer weeks.

We were desperate to save Ellie, but there was no way our buyer would ever let her leave. He wanted the soul of a child and made sure that what he wanted would never leave the house.

Eyes were everywhere, and the house we left was undoubtedly not the one we had once loved.