Jessica Lee Walker is the daughter of Stilt-Walker who is the circus man on stilts. He never told Little Benny about her. Jessica Lee is half black and half Mexican. Stilt-Walker refuses to talk about his daughter. He never mentions her to anyone. Jessica is a strange girl. Stilt-Walker was afraid of her ability. Jessica’s mother died when Jessica was at age 9, but Jessica could still reach her spiritually. She could also reach her dead kin that she never knew because they were always reaching out to her. Jessica never tried to conjure up the dead. She just had a special ability to hear her love ones speaking to her. Because of her special ability, her and her father never got along. Stilt-Walker thought that his daughter was a witch.
Stilt-Walker had given away his present to Little Benny that was made by his daughter. The present was the hat that Little Benny wears on his head. Every night when Little Benny fell asleep on the couch with it on, he would dream about Jessica. He never met Jessica before. Jessica was alive and well in California. Little Benny lived in North Carolina. For some reason, he dreamed about Jessica.
Little Benny would often complain to Stilt-Walker about the girl that he dreamed about. One day he described her to Stilt-Walker. That made Stilt-Walker very nervous because it sounded like his daughter. He asked Benny did she have a name, but Benny did not know her name. From then on, whenever Little Benny would mention his dreams about Jessica, Stilt-Walker would interrupt him and jump on another subject.
Meanwhile, in California, Jessica could see Little Benny in her mind while reading about him in the newspaper. He was the man that everyone thought was crazy because he was seeing a man that did not seem to exist to the public which is Cigar. Jessica had moved to California to get a job and to be far away from her father. She felt an urge to go back home.
Jessica and Little Benny were simply blessed with a gift to see things that ordinary people could not see with the natural eye.
