The lid was chained because Dolores didn’t want anyone searching through them.

Piper had seen Dolores put photographs into the chest.

She had also heard Dolores describe Marlene as a bad girl who went away and wouldn’t be welcome back.

Piper combined those memories into a child’s frightening explanation: the bad ones go there and don’t come back.

No one had been buried inside the freezer.

There had been no second child waiting to be rescued.

But the story of the chest was no less disturbing for being different from my first fears.