She asked for the news reporter Al Hampton. No one knew a Al Hampton.She decided to do a search of the name Jennings in the area. There was a religious cult ran by a man named Scott Hewitt. Him and two sisters started it. He thought of himself as God.
The first names of the two sisters was Marsha and Ruby. Stephanie felt as though she was on the right track. They had a country house with several out buildings. Then things went wrong and the police found the burned remains of one sister and the body of a little girl in the well it went from a commune to an cult of some kind.
The cult reached out to other young adults and it grew at an alarming rate and hit the police radar detector as a group that was into every thing from drugs to selling illegal firearms to other ungodly crimes like robbery, breaking into people's houses.
She talked to real estate agent that was trying to sell the property for the city who had compensated it for non tax payments. The agent took her out to the property. She saw the well that they found the little girl's body in.
Then she toured the buildings on the property. One had an old canopy bed in it along with a stuff bunny. Somewhere in Stephanie's mind floppy popped up. Then she remembered or maybe a vision of a man throwing Floppy across the floor.
He was extremely agitated and picked up a sword and was coming after her and a lady and was going to kill them. Then there was another lady with another little girl who tried to stop it and he ran out of the house with him on their tail. It gave the lady time to get the little girl in the house to safety on a horse.
Stephanie still had the old stuffed bunny in her arms when the real estate agent told her he really needed to get back to town. She carried Floppy out to the car. They were almost back to town when she realized she still had Floppy.
The agent told her to keep it the city was going to bring in dumpsters and get the place up for sale. The bunny wouldn't be missed by the trash company. She laughed and looked at her bunny and said you have just been saved from being buried in a city landfill.
She decided that place might hold some answers but back home was where she would really get the answers she was seeking. She ate at a little café. One of the waitresses remembered her going into the newspaper office. They struck up a conversation about that commune or whatever it was.