Page 55 of Cadenbury Town Does Halloween

“Where are you going, grandpa?” Nora asks him.

He beams. He loves being a grandpa. “I’m off to play in the funfair.”

“Can I come with you?” Nora asks him.

“If your brother doesn’t mind,” he replies looking at Nix.

“Nope, if you’re sure John.”

“I am.”

“Yay,” Nora says, walking over to John and taking his hand. She looks at Xander and Enoch. “You two should come as well.”

Xander looks unsure for a moment.

“I promise to keep you safe,” John says. “I’m not magical but I know how to throw a punch.”

I hear Ma gasp. “John!”

“What?” he asks, looking at her and shrugging.

Ma just shakes her head.

“I can come as well if you want,” Sly says.

Xander looks at John. “Would you mind if our brother comes as well?”

John smiles. “Not in the least, as long as Sly doesn’t mind following us around the food stalls as well as going on rides.”

“Hot donuts?” Enoch says excitedly.

“I’m sure we can do that. Let’s go quickly before Ebby becomes a killjoy,” Sly says, grabbing Xander and Enoch and pulling them away to our laughter and Ebby’s scowl.

“Healthy food tomorrow,” he calls after them.

They ignore him and rush off.

Ebby looks at me. “Sorry, Sly going with them is no reflection on your dad.”

“I know, Pa understands as well.”

People start arriving by the table and Titus and Nix start handing out bowls of soup.

“The decorations around the house are amazing,” someone says. “The way those skeletons are crawling out of the ground look so real and those ghosts.”

I turn to look, knowing what I’ll see as I did after all help decorate the place.

“Seriously, they’re alive?” I exclaim looking at the skeletons that are actually climbing out of the ground, somehow whole, well as whole as a skeleton can be, and alive and way more than were there earlier.

The ghosts that were happily flying above the house and around the grounds start dive bombing those walking towards the house.

“Yes, ghosts and skeletons. You witches are amazing,” someone says grinning at us.

“So, this is new,” Sal says, looking around.

The ghosts fly through people, and they shriek in surprise before running away or standing still laughing.

The skeletons start chasing people and if caught try and drag them somewhere, where, I have no idea. It all reminds me of some kind of children’s cartoon.