'Mary was friendly with Christine,' the strange woman, my co-walker said. 'Oh dear God! Did I kill her? Did I push her over the edge?' 'We did,' my co-walker said. 'We killed Mary like we killed Kate.' 'Kate fell into the lochan,' I said. 'She drowned.' 'Remember again.' My co-walker woman said. 'Remember what really happened.' 'We found her in the morning,' I shook my head, hoping to chase this terrible version of me away with her vile thoughts and awful accusations. 'Think back,' my co-walker said. 'Think of the night before when you were all under the Shelter Stone.' I tried not to think. I did not wish to face the terrible possibility. I felt myself sinking further into the rock, so I became firmly embedded in An Cailleach. We were fused now, this great hill and I. 'Think back,

