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...the bath. Her face is quite expressionless but she's got Grandfather's belt and when she sees Melanie she shifts it from one hand to the other. Melanie feels her mouth go dry. She stares at the belt. It looks alive. A snake. It looks like the brown snake Uncle Don killed last summer.
Mum says, and her voice is like her face, quite without emotion, "Look at the bath, Melanie. I want you to look at the bath and tell me what you see."
"It ..." begins Melanie. She lifts her eyes to her mother's face. "It's dirty. The water, the water's...
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