The Last of the Moon Girls

Lizzy wishes that there was some way to punish Summers for shutting down the investigation but settles for interviewing the dead girls’ parents. Andrew advises against this, explaining that they divorced and that Susan Gilman moved away.

At the farm, Evvie makes Lizzy’s favorite cobbler, and Lizzy tells her what she learned from Roger. Evvie tells Lizzy where Fred Gilman lives and works. Lizzy expresses doubt about her chances of solving the case, but Evvie reassures her that it’s worth trying. If she can discover what happened, it will help the spirits of the girls and Althea’s spirit move on. Lizzy describes how she felt Althea’s presence. Evvie takes Lizzy to the apiary and sings a Creole lullaby to the bees, which sit on Evvie and don’t sting her. Lizzy realizes that they are “walkers on the same path” (96). Evvie tells the bees that she has work to do, and they fly off her and back into their hive.

Evvie compares her magick with the bees to Lizzy’s gift with scents. She tells Lizzy that she helped Althea with pressing flowers for the Book of Remembrances. They talk about how a hive nurtures a new queen when one dies, and Evvie admits that Althea wanted her to help Lizzy become the queen of the farm.