

Someday might be ten thousand years from now for him.” They have a different perspective on time. “But he promised to call us someday,” Adam said. “We forgot to get a communication device from him. “Maybe we should try to contact Ekweel2 and go for another ride on a flying saucer.” And we can’t go to the Haunted Cave because it’s haunted.” She paused. We can’t go to the reservoir because we burned that as well.

“We can’t go to the lighthouse because we burned that down. “We can’t go to the beach because of the sharks,” Sally said as she listed the various possibilities.

As often was the case, they were trying to decide what to do with the day. It was a hot summer Wednesday, ten in the morning, a perfect time for a milk shake. Later, that is, when they couldn’t find their way out of the castle. Of course later they would blame each other for the idea. Because the owner would serve only vanilla ice-cream, they were each having a vanilla shake when the idea of visiting the witch’s castle came up. The argument started in the Frozen Cow, Spooksville’s best known ice-cream parlor. But whereas Adam and Watch liked to think she was a nice person, Sally Wilcox and Cindy Makey were certain she was dangerous. Adam Freeman and his friends had seen too many demonstrations of her power to doubt that. Ann Templeton, Spooksville’s most powerful and beautiful resident, a good witch or a bad witch? There was no question that she was a real witch.
