Okay! If anybody has some suggestions, give them after you read this chapter! I am crazy! Who plotted this again? Oh yeah, it was me.
Chapter ten: Which is too full of decisions to make
Sophia found out, after a few seconds of meeting the children that they had been on vacation. The younger half went to Fanny, their grandmother. Two went to Lettie and the other two went to Prince Justin ad his wife, Princess Beatrice. Michael and Martha had also been temporarily in vacation inside Howl's castle. That part explained the entire reason why Morgan was gloomy when he saw the entire coup assembled together. He found the empty castle too depressing.
Sophia also found out that the large family wasn't moving out until the next day and that Martha was out of practice in dealing with misbehaving children. The other magical oriented adults were busy decoding the message that Sophie gave, so it left Martha, Morgan, Margo, Jam and Sophia to deal with the seven terrors.
"Jam – eh – I mean – Meg! Don't climb there! Its slippery, you might fall." Sophia called. With that warning, the child found more reason to climb on the slippery sink and of course, fell. Luckily for Meg, Margo had been near enough to catch her. Sophia only had time to give her a grateful smile before another suicidal child who was on a mission to drive his supervisors to insanity caught her attention.
"Ben! Not the window! Morgan, stop him!"
Morgan looked up from his place near the hearth where Calcifer was whizzing around, trying to catch Jen's attention, which he managed successfully. Morgan dashed up and stopped the child just in the nick of time.
A movement from the castle door alerted both that one child was trying to open the door and they released a sigh of relief when Jam caught the chubby, pink hand of Aggie. It was revealed to Sophia that only two portals were reliable in that door. One led to a dark portal(Wales), and another dropped you from an incredible height(castle door, remember that they're flying?). Only two portals opened that had actual safe flooring.
Martha was nursing Chris and was quite helpless. The other children ran rampant, playing with Howl's most prized collection of quills and nearly burning down Morgan's box of multi-colored feathers. Calcifer was having fun acting like an important toy for the children. They kept calling him, "Calcy! Calcy!" everywhere he went and would have tossed him around like a ping-pong ball if it weren't for Sophia's timely warning.
This set the entire day of the unfortunate trio. The end of the day found the children all around Martha, with Morgan and Sophia sleeping heavily, their energy drained. By that time, the three wizards and the witch already figured out what Sophie's message meant.
Sophia heard.
She was sleeping heavily and was quite contented already when the sound of whispered voices woke her up. She was quite ready to go back to bed when she realized they were talking about her encounter with the dead lady. She got up and eavesdropped.
"No!" a whispered exclamation made her jump. The voice sounded like Michael. "You can't do that to Sophia! Don't you see? Sophie did this so that we would be able to figure it out and save her!"
There were a few moments of silence and then Ben spoke. "Michaels right Howl. You can't do that to Sophia. It's rather unfair."
"That's just it!" Howl jumped in. "Sophia is my wife's property! She is a just a wandering bundle of spirit strings that's assuming an existence. Sophie has every right to come back to life through Sophia."
Sophia might have missed the next words with what Howl said. It nearly made her want to faint. So that's what Sophie was trying to say. Stay in Wales so that this won't happen. If only she had listened! She thought angrily.
There was a sigh and then Lettie spoke. "Howl. Listen to reason. Sophie herself warned us about this. She does not want to come back."
There was a crack and Sophia jumped a little. "She can't not want to come back." The whisper was said brokenly and Sophia had a feeling that Howl was crying. "Look at what her death did to Morgan. He's chasing older girls, making the mistake in thinking that the love he was looking for was in that form. He only wants a mother. I could see that."
There was another session of silence and then Lettie spoke. "Howl. Think about Sophie's wishes. She cares about you and Morgan more than you would ever believe. Do you think that if she comes back now, Morgan would suddenly stop chasing after everything that wears a skirt? I don't think so."
There was a sound of silk rubbing against each other and then a gasp. "What do you want me to do, Lettie? Let her go?" there was a rustling movement at this point. "Let that bundle of spirit walk around with my wife's face?"
"Yes." Lettie said.
Sophia was already quite ready to faint at this point and she tip toed her way back to where she lay earlier, pretending that she hadn't heard a thing. But she had a feeling that Morgan's eyes closed itself when she lay beside him. She had a feeling that she wasn't the only one who was eavesdropping.
Morgan: What are you holding?
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