Doctor Sleep

In August of 2013, Chetta breaks her hip while getting coffee. When she calls Lucy, she says that her hip isn’t the biggest issue. Abra then calls crying from camp and tells Lucy that Momo, her name for Chetta, has cancer. She is right. Chetta refuses treatment for the pancreatic cancer, but her hip heals.

One day, Abra checks the mail for her father. In one circular she sees a flier for various missing children: Cynthia Abelard, Merton Askew, Angel Barbera, and Bradley Trevor, the Baseball Boy. She remembers her vision of people cutting Bradley and licking his blood off their palms. She wonders about whether the children’s parents will ever have closure.

Abra’s parents no longer talk about her childhood talents. She sees things less often, and moving objects takes more effort than before. She can keep what she thinks of as the “seeing part” (208) of her mind muffled, although she’s aware that she could influence suggestible people.

Abra has an ability she calls “far-seeing” (208), which helps her look at things that are far away. She retrieves the circular from the trash and touches Bradley’s picture, which gives her the sense that he had been like her. She sees that a man named Barry tricked him, along with a group she describes as the Flashlight People.