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"Scarlet? Scarlet?"

The Mayor was waving a hand in Scarlet's face.

She blinked.

"Earth to Scarlet!"

Scarlet shook her head.

"Oh. Sorry. What is it?"

"Can we all see the knife?"

"No…"

"Why?"

"Because I left it… in the possession of… Elle."

The Mayor took out his megaphone.

"Snap the witch, come to the middle of the crowd, please."

What's SHE got to do with it? Scarlet thought.

A scrawny, tall witch stepped into the circle. She looked somewhat familiar…

"Yes, Mayor? …Scarlet? Ohmygod!"

"…who are you?"

"Elle is my name, but everyone calls me Snap because I make spells in a… snap!"

"You- YOU- are Elle?"

The Mayor started tapping his foot.

"Yepper!"

Scarlet hugged her.

"I missed you so much!"

The Mayor's face turned around to his… "unhappy" side.

"Could we please get on with this?"

"Oh, sorry, Mr. Mayor. What is it?"

"The knife."

"I don't have the knife. It's still stuck in the wall from what I've heard."

The Mayor glared at Scarlet, still in his "unhappy" mode.

"Liar."

Scarlet sighed and said.

"When I was in the other world, where all of us used to live, I lived in a hotel almost more than half of my life. Day by day, I stared at it. Then I did something very strange…"

Everybody had his or her or its eyes fixed on her.

"…I went to the top of a cliff and threw it as far as I could. Stupid, but I couldn't stare at it anymore. When I saw it, it felt like I had to kill somebody. That's why."

"You pulled it out of the wall then?"

Scarlet nodded.

Then some people started walking away, some people sighed and looked down, and some people just kept staring. The Mayor gave her a sympathetic look, switched to his happy face, and called out to everyone on his megaphone,

"Hold it. We haven't given out prizes yet."

All the people turned around and looked up. Scarlet sighed and walked to her new… home. But for some reason, she didn't want to go back there… yet. She turned to the right and found herself opening up a gate. She was in a graveyard. She shrugged and walked on. She went up a hill and sat on it, marveling the size of the moon. She then thinks that since Elle is here, then…

"Spicer, here boy!"

She looked around. Nothing. But then she heard the faint sound of barking, but she still doesn't see anything.

"Shut up you stupid mutt! You'll get us ratted out!"

"What?"

Scarlet immediately stood up and said again,

"Spicer, here boy!"

She heard the barking again and she followed the sound.

"God! Do I have to hit you with a shovel!"

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Uh-oh. What'll happen when Scarlet meets the monster that kidnapped Spicer? I bet you know who it was, too…