The portal shows what appears to be an ideal family Christmas. The house is decorated and the tree twinkles with lights and there are presents and plenty of food to take home as leftovers. Stacia and her mother are both there, as well as a man who is clearly Stacia's father (she looks more like him than she does her mother) and two more adults who are clearly Stacia's brother and sister. They're all laughing and chattering and hugging, moving around each other in a comfortable family dance. But since Dan's looking for it, he'll see that Stacia and her mother deftly avoid each other the entire time. They don't touch, they find reasons to travel the long way around rather than pass near each other. Stacia's sister seems to be the only one who notices, but she doesn't say anything to bring it to the attention of her oblivious brother and father.

The Ghost sighs.

"Secrets within secrets," he says. "That's where the trouble gets in."