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The unbasket child has no parents in evidence. She does not materialize memories of parents or a place of origin or anything else when questioned by miscellaneously official people assisting in the search for her source. She continues to exhibit bizarre eating habits - she will eat fruit and vegetables, and it is discovered that she will drink Sprite in addition to water and juice, but she cannot be induced to touch anything less than strictly vegan, nor anything salty or oily, and she eats very little. She likes to sit outside in the sun. She turns out to have a rudimentary ability to read, although her vocabulary is spotty.
It doesn't seem to alarm her that her parents are unable to be found.
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queensidecastle
"Books. Toys. Puzzles. Trips to interesting places. Last year—" she stumbles over the words, abruptly less cheerful "—last year we took her to a museum and she really liked it."
Katie doesn't ask another question, but she looks at Chris steadily, in case there is more about to be said.
Katie considers this.
"Then," she says, "I won't know things. And she sounds important."
"Then," she says, "I won't know things. And she sounds important."
"Can I," asks Katie after a while, "ask you why you don't like talking about her?"
queensidecastle
"If you don't know, I really can't explain," she says, shaking her head and looking away.
