S2E76 - The Roots That Remembered the Child

Luna turns the page of Esther's journal in the Beech Street attic, reading what the girl promised to something in the sycamore roots. The answer is worse than she imagined—a vow spoken by a child to a presence that had been waiting for generations. Luna follows the journal into the memory of the night the lamp was first lit, and she sees Esther hand the shadow child her name willingly. The promise was not a trap; it was an exchange. And now Luna understands that the cycle never began with her grandmother—it began with Esther, and the root...