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Chapter 8
"I'll show you how a real sorceress does magic" Yubaba shouted as she swept out of the room.
Haku dropped the jewel he had been examining and followed her.
Out in the ornate corridor Haku could just see Yubaba striding down the hallway in the dim light. She rounded a corner and disappeared. For such a large woman, Yubaba could sure move fast.
He caught up with her at the lift, he wondered if she was in the mood for questions. The last time he had asked about her work he had ended up with a bruise on his cheek. He decided to approach this carefully.
"Mistress Yubaba, what is happening downstairs that needs your urgent attention"? He asked slowly, trying to be formal.
She turned her head to look at him, the flames danced in the lamps, creating shadows on her face and casting in sharp relief. She smiled humourlessly, showing the rows of her white teeth.
"Humans…" was all she replied.
Thay took the lift down to the ground floor, and stepped out. They passed groups of Yuna clustered together with their sleeves over their noses.
"I can't bear that Human stink "! One was saying to another.
Two workers ran towards them, they bowed hurridly, the more senior of the two spoke first "Mistress Yubaba, come quickly please"!
Haku gasped when they stepped into the entrance hall. A group of seven humans were tearing the place apart, a few were becoming see-through, which terrified them. Others were quite obviously drunk, one man was trying to pull the kimono off one of the Yuna, another was punching a worker repeatedly in the face.
"What happened to them"?" Haku asked Yubaba in a horrified whisper, Gazing around at the destruction.
"Some humans react differently to entering the spirit world. Some of them are drunk" Yubaba replied simply "I shall turn them into pigs, that will teach them a lesson"
Yubaba was true to her word. One by one she transfigured the cavorting drunks and their terrified friends into pig, it was amazingly unpleasant to watch them mutate into their animal form.
Finally Yubaba beckoned to several of the workers and told them to take the new pigs to the large sty she kept.
Yubaba turned to Haku, who had been watching in stunned silence.
"That is real magic, boy."
End chapter 8Please, please, please review I would really like to know what your thoughts were, any polite criticism is very welcome. Apologies again for the immensely long time it took to update.
