{"id":70,"date":"2026-09-10T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantatv.com\/series\/the-secret-in-the-wall\/chapter-3-the-girl-in-the-hidden-room\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:31:10","slug":"chapter-3-the-girl-in-the-hidden-room","status":"publish","type":"sr_chapter","link":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/?sr_chapter=chapter-3-the-girl-in-the-hidden-room","title":{"rendered":"CHAPTER 3. THE GIRL IN THE HIDDEN ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.igallery.blog\/assets\/d6d71f71abed14e4e47e1dce52190abb\/2026\/0910\/64e05c08-56c7-43b8-8034-6dc072a6955d-Screenshot_10.png\" style=\"max-width: 100{4ffdf0d3d7c1df7718bc4ac5461c4394f3feadae72d4f226268bca6495f999d2};height: auto\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders arrived minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>They widened the opening safely and discovered a narrow hidden room behind the hallway wall.<\/p>\n<p>Inside sat a young girl around Lily&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p>Her clothes were dirty.<\/p>\n<p>She held an old teddy bear tightly against her chest.<\/p>\n<p>Snack wrappers were scattered near her feet.<\/p>\n<p>Lily had been secretly feeding her through the vent.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel knelt several feet away.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your name?<\/p>\n<p>The girl hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>Emily.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked around the hidden space.<\/p>\n<p>There was an old mattress.<\/p>\n<p>Several bottles of water.<\/p>\n<p>And a small box of photographs.<\/p>\n<p>This was not an accidental hiding place.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had used this room.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel asked gently.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been here?<\/p>\n<p>Emily shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked horrified.<\/p>\n<p>One officer carefully carried Emily out.<\/p>\n<p>As she passed Daniel, she suddenly stared at him.<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes widened.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel noticed.<\/p>\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>Emily reached toward the box of photographs.<\/p>\n<p>She pulled out one old picture.<\/p>\n<p>Then she handed it to him.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel looked down.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph showed two children standing beside each other decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>One of them was Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>The other was a little girl he had not seen since childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel whispered her name.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Sarah?<\/p>\n<p>Daniel could barely answer.<\/p>\n<p>My sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency responders arrived minutes later. They widened the opening safely and discovered a narrow hidden room behind the hallway wall. Inside sat a young girl around Lily&#8217;s age. Her clothes were dirty. She held an old teddy bear tightly against her chest. Snack wrappers were scattered near her feet. Lily had been secretly feeding her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-70","sr_chapter","type-sr_chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/sr_chapter"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sr_chapter\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fantatv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}