Mildred almost gasped. Almost. Well she did, but managed to keep it very quiet. The others seemed to have noticed what she noticed about the witch they were watching as well.

"Who is that?" Mildred whispered to her friends, thinking maybe someone had seen her on their first tour of the castle ( Goodness that seemed a very long time ago!) . "And what's Mr Blossom up too?"

"I've as much clue as you do, Mil." Jadu said not taking her eye off the scene.

"DO WHAT?" Asked Ruby. Loudly.

"SHH!"

"Ruby take your earphones out!" Mildred hissed.

The witch turned around - at the same time as Maud clapped her hand over Ruby's mouth- But was almost instantly distracted again by Mr Blossom. The Something Heavy caught on yet another step so He'd said a word too rude to say around little witches. And was scolded for it.

Thankfully by some miracle (or more likely the racquet they were making,) no one realised there were students hiding in the yard behind the stone banister. And so the four first years went unnoticed by the two mysterious teachers and the handy man. Mildred was surprised no one else had come to investigate what was going on. Surly HB wouldn't have stood for this amount of noise during the school day?

"The witch- I feel like I should know her…" Maud mumbled as she let Ruby go. "EW! Ruby!"

"You put your hand over my mouth!"

"You didn't have to lick me!" Maud pouted, wiping her hand on her skirt.

"It wasn't on purpose-!"

"Shh!" Mildred and Jadu hissed again.

Still not moving from her spot or looking away, Jadu asked, "Maud, what do you mean you know her?"

"Is she another Miss Drill? Have we forgotten he as well?" Mildred frowned. If she was going to start forgetting ALL her teachers faces, lessons were going to be very hard!

"No. I mean- don't laugh, but she smells familiar." Maud said tapping her nose. Mildred tried not to chuckle. And failed.
"I'm serious! Her perfume is so strong, even worse then Miss Bats. AND Even with all of Mr Blossom's smells, it's there. I've smelt it before so we've defiantly been in the same room as her."

"Or at least been somewhere she has." Ruby agreed.

With one Final shove, the adults got whatever it was up the last step and they set it down on the hallway floor. Miss Drill emerged unscathed behind the Something Heavy. She caught her breath, leaning on it.

"Almost Time to bring it alive eh, Frank?" she said, much more cheerful now they'd got it up the steps.

(Mildred elbowed Maud, as though to say: "So that's whose voice it is!"

Maud elbowed back: "Oh! Gosh so it is!"

…or possibly "Ow why did you elbow me?" )

Mildred would have like to get a better look at whatever it was now it was practically before them. But the Something Heavy's true nature was obscured. That is to say, it was under a white sheet. All she could gather was that it was about the size of a large desk; but more oddly shaped and lumpy. And it had wheels, but only because after a rest stop the adults started pulling and pushing along the corridor on its little casters.

"I can't wait to see her moving around by herself!" Trilled the witch, steering the thing.

( "'Her'?" the four girls mouthed to each other. )

"Aye me too. When I think of the trouble I've had finding some of them parts for her!" The zombie replied. Or at least that's what Mildred thought he said… His voice kept getting stuck on some letter sounds. So, it sounded like "Trrroubllle" "haaad" and "paarrrts".

"Bring it alive?" Mildred frowned and asked the others. "That thing? How?"

"Is it a thing? It could be a someone rather than a who?" Maud pointed out.

"Yeah, maybe it's a Franken?" Jadu suggested. "Mr Blossom did say 'her' didn't he."

"Can they do that?" Mildred asked. Maud and Jadu shrugged. They both turned to Ruby for the answer.

"How should I know? We don't all just instantly recognise each other you know!" She shot back, offended. Mildred finally twigged what 'Franken' meant. It must be slang for a Frankenstein's Monster style of Monster. (Or in this case a Cherrytree's Monster? She made a note to discreetly ask Ruby for corrections when she could.)

"Besides I hope it's a robot." Ruby muttered as the Something Heavy and its escorts came to pass in front of them, and trundled on over the stone and wood along the corridor. "also, a Franken'? In a castle? Under a sheet? Seriously?"

"They'll saying it's alive next I suppose?" Maud asked. It made Ruby smirk at least.

"No, but what I meant can they make a new Franken?" Jadu added.

"Oh. Well I guess? I mean physically yes… but I don't think so?" Ruby said pulling on her ear. Something green came away and For a horrible moment Mildred thought Ruby had pulled her ear back off. But she was just taking out her ear phones. Green ones this time. Finally.

"Not unless they have lightning rods and a hidden lab in the staff room?" she continued. They watched as Drill and Blossom hefted the great lump up the next set of stairs, the witch reaching up and holding the sheet on.

"I mean you can't just go around making people without proper paper work or everyone one would be doing it- Hey Mil where you going?"

Maud and Jadu looked up to find their scholarship friend gone. Instead she was ducking behind a pillar, glass of water abandoned on the stair.

"Shh! After them. Don't you want to see what it is?" Mildred asked, her curiosity piqued and already off following the teachers. the other exchanged an unsure 'what if we get in trouble look. then a shrugged and followed Mildred in following, creeping down the corridor.

Well the others creeped. Ruby sort of slid, not wanting to clomp.