Page 58 of Cadenbury Town Does Halloween
“Nope, they just slashed our cloaks,” Titus says.
“And suddenly I’m glad we dressed up tonight,” Temp says.
“There is no more dark magic in the house,” Sly tells us.
“Thanks,” Adhan says, looking around and shaking his head. “Good luck not having nightmares about killer dolls tonight.”
“I can’t wait to see how the dark witches get past our protection and see what they do to my fair,” Elliot says grinning.
“That was amazing. Creepy but super amazeballs,” a visitor says. “We’re so coming back next year.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed it,” Kean replies, grinning at them.
“This is so going on the website.” Temp happily says.
We fix the dolls, making sure they are of the non-killing doll variety, and leave the house to re-join the others who are still standing around the cauldron, but I notice that Molly isn’t there.
“Molly has gone to chat with Madam Cleo,” Sal tells us. “She can’t understand why these things keep happening when the town is protected.”
“That is the question, isn’t it?” Adhan says.
“Tomorrow evening we’ll all come to the fair,” Justice says.
“And I made sure there was no more dark magic in the house,” Sly tells the others.
“Do you recognise the dark magic?” Justice asks him.
Sly shakes his head. “No, I’ve not had contact with my family or other dark witch families since meeting Ebby. But the magic isn’t family magic,” he pauses for a moment. “My father keeps emailing me, asking me to come to a family gathering. I can go if you want me to. I’m the true witch of the family and can protect myself if needed.”
Ebby grabs his hand and doesn’t look happy but doesn’t say anything.
Adhan shakes his head. “No, whomever it is will make themselves known in time, they always do.”
Sly nods. “Well, the offers there.”
“You would think the dark witches would have given up by now, wouldn’t you,” Temp says. “I mean it’s not as if they have won any encounter we’ve had with them.”
“Well, no one said dark witches were very bright,” Nix says.
Ebby bursts out laughing.
“I wasn’t including you in that, only the dark witches trying to kill us,” Nix quickly says looking at Sal.
Sly grins. “I knew what you meant.”
CHAPTER 23
I’m tired when I wake up the next morning. The rest of the evening was fun and thankfully nothing further happened. We gave out all the soup which everyone loved. I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed cackling around the cauldron, even if some of the witchlings did grumble.
It’s true what Molly is always saying about working together to make soups and things. Sure, we did use magic but still, we bonded.
Ma enjoyed herself as well, and happily handed out soup and chatted with everyone. Much like Pa, Ma loves living in Cadenbury. Sure, she struggles with magic, but she hasn’t blown anything up yet or turned Pa into a toad so it’s all good and she did inspire the dancing clothes room.
After we finished the soup, Pa came back with Nora and the boys. Nora was being carried by Pa, as she was fast asleep against his shoulder. The boys were laughing and joking with him.
Enoch spied Ebby and Sly. “We had so much fun,” he said rushing over, “John took us on so many rides and we had hotdogs but he wouldn’t let us have any candy floss because we had hot donuts when we first got there. The spinning tea cupswere fun and we went forwards and backwards. But... are you both okay? Did the dark witches do something again?”
Ebby and Sly laughed at him.
