After dinner, leaving John and Jodie at the manor, we all head to the funfair.
“Evening, friends,” Elliot says, smiling at us all. “I’m not expecting anything to happen tonight, but with dark magic, you never know.”
“Is there anywhere specific you want us to look after?” Sly asks.
Elliot shakes his head. “Nope, just wherever you’re drawn to. So, pick an attraction and have at it.”
Adhan looks at our group. “Pick an attraction and stay there for a bit and then change over, groups of two or more, at least two witches per group.”
Ernest looks at me and Sly. “Fancy starting off together? I’ll let you pick.”
“Hall of Mirrors,” Sly quickly says, grinning at me.
“You’re such a child,” I reply, grinning at him.
“What?” Sly asks.
I just shake my head.
“If you get into trouble, send a help message and we’ll all come running,” Ernest says.
We all break up, going in different directions as we make our way to the Hall of Mirrors.
“I don’t think I’ve ever walked a Hall of Mirrors,” Ernest says as we enter.
“Prepare to look weird,” I say, grinning at him. I burst out laughing when Ernest jumps as soon as we walk in.
“Sheesh, that made me jump,” he says, putting a hand over his chest.
We laugh at him.
“Yeah, yeah, carry on,” he says, waving his hand around.
We walk around laughing at ourselves and pulling faces to make us laugh even more.
The mirrors are fun. I look tall, short, wiggly, wide, skinny, upside down, and so much more. We stand in front of them together, as couples and individually. I honestly can’t remember laughing so much.
Adhan and Ernest are a hoot. You’d never think that looking at Adhan, he looks so serious, but he has a total wicked sense of humour, and Ernest is just nuts.
We’ve been in here a while when we reach another mirror.
“Have we not seen this mirror before?” Ernest asks, looking confused.
“Yeah, when we came in,” I confirm, looking around. “The entrance should be here.”
We look, but there’s no door.
“Maybe they have this mirror in more than one location,” Adhan says.
“Maybe. Let’s have another look,” Sly suggests.
I don’t remember seeing another mirror like this on our walk around. I mean, why would they have two mirrors the same?
We start the walk again, but the mirrors have moved. It looks like we are now in some sort of mirror maze.
I send some magic out to see what it can find. Sly and Ernest do the same.
We catch up with some teenagers who walked in before us.
