Page 85 of Shadow Witch

Eyva grinned at her. “Now, aren’t you glad we came here?”

“I would be more glad if Dewey wasn’t missing, but this is pretty cool.”

Drucinda plopped onto the ground inside the circle and dug her phone from her pocket. “Stop being awe-struck and get over here to help me identify these pictures. I know the one. I’m betting it was your pick.” Drucinda poked a finger at her grandmother.

“That predictable am I?”

Drucinda nodded as she twisted the camera toward them. “Magical marketplace.”

“Ohhh, yes,” Eyva answered with a clap. “It was. I just love it there.”

“Okay, so that’s one place down. What do the others look like?” Paige asked as she sat down next to Drucinda.

“These, I have no idea. There’s a dilapidated manor, an odd-looking van, a dog, a hippie–“

“Ohhhh,” Paige said with a wince. “That would be my pick. I wanted to go into Scooby-Doo.”

Drucinda screwed up her face as she glanced at Paige. “Only you would want to go into a documentary.”

“Documentary?” Paige repeated. “It was a cartoon.”

“Documenting the lives of Scooby-Doo and his friends, yes,” Eyva said with a nod. “Well, the names were changed, but still.”

“That’s real?” Paige asked. “That’s…”

Drucinda screwed up her face. “Why do you constantly have a difficult time believing things are real? You have a tiny dragon for a partner and you work in a magical library yet at every turn, you’re shocked.”

“I just…didn’t realize that cartoon was a documentary. I thought it was fiction.”

Drucinda rolled her eyes as she flicked to the next picture in her reel. “I suppose you thought the Smurfs weren’t real either.”

Paige raised her eyebrows as she thought back to the small, blue-animated creatures. “So…”

“Oh, please. You can not be serious,” Drucinda answered with a huff.

“I’m sorry. I also thought Super Mario Brothers was just a game. I can’t believe this.”

“Although,” Drucinda said with a wag of her finger, “Gargamel was really slandered quite badly in that television show. He sued and lost, but I wouldn’t have put up with that.”

Paige stared into space as she recalled the evil warlock in the series. “I can’t even…”

“Stop worrying about that and help us,” Drucinda snapped. “I see the Haunted Manor…”

She flicked to another picture. “Oh, that’s the underwater kingdom,” Eyva answered with a nod. “Dewey picked it. He said he had such fun in the underwater world with Paige on their last mission that he wanted to visit there.”

“All right, so that’s three. And then these two.” Drucinda swiped between two photographs, studying them. “Looks like ancient ruins and…”

“Space?” Paige asked.

“Oh, yes,” Eyva said. “Now, it’s coming back to me. The Celestial Observatory.”

“All right,” Drucinda said, scrambling to her feet. “Looks like we have our work cut out for us. I suppose we’ll start with Paige’s choice and work our way through the locations.”

“How do we do this?” Paige asked.

“I’ll say the locations, then we’ll be whisked away to the first. Once we’re finished there, we’ll automatically move to the next location,” Drucinda said. “Ready?”

“I am. Oh, what fun,” Eyva said, clapping her hands. “I can’t wait to see Shaggy again. You know, many years ago…he and I had a little fling.”

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