Miss Mary Wardwell, stands in her door, leaning against the frame, her arm outstretched, carelessly stroking the soft dark wood.
And Zelda can't get a word out, the event of the day was so shocking, and she had absolutely no time to process what happened in the few minutes they had, so she just stands there. "May I help you, Mrs Spellman?" The dark woman asks her. Sabrina shoves her gently aside. "Miss Wardwell, we need your help. It's pretty urgent, if I may say so." "That does sound like it, come in dear." Her smile is wide an genuine, a hand resting on the shoulder of her student, guiding her into the dark living room.
Regaining control over her body , Zelda steps into the closing door and pulls Hilda with her. She does not like to ask for help, it's a sign of weakness, witch is unlike her, but she won't leave Sabrina with this woman. And she's entirely honest with herself, they do need help.
-"and then we ran outside", Sabrina just finished the story, sipping at her cup of tea. Hilda as well holds a steaming coffee in her hands, sipping loudly once in a while.
"So the demons name was Zozo?" Miss Wardwell asks again..."that's big. I do understand now, why you ran in here like a warlock." Her eyebrows raise higher that usual.
"You don't say", Zelda huffs annoyed, pulls out a cigarette and starts nervously to light it. The adrenaline in her blood has her hands so shaking that it takes three tries. Finally she breathes in the smoke and exhales. "Do you know nothing about the demon, Miss?" Sabrina hopefully asks.
"Well I can't help you." The women shrugs. "Zozo is way to powerful, he's been defeated only once and that was about 400 years ago."
"So it is possible? What do we need?"
"Well for starters, luck." She chuckles. "It's impossible, Sabrina. You would need", she stands up, walking towards her bookcase, pulling out a heavy book, " a lot of things only available under specific circumstances." She pulls out a list.
Here, try it. You won get far, i believe. You would have to hike about 2 weeks west, harvesting a flower, only blooming on a full moon, and the next full moon is in eleven days." Sabrina bows over the list. Holder scoots closer. "Sabrina, that's not possible." She states " we would have to walk trough the deep valley. That's so risky. Even if you know where you are going. Which we don't." She looks up, glancing at her sister. Zelda sits on the wine red sofa, crossed arms, obviously thinking. "Right Zelda?"
After a few moments Zelda looks at her sister. "Ill do it." She states.
"But...but...you can't go alone. You will die there." Sabrina shakes her head. " no illl go." She stands up, trying to leave.
In this moment a book flies around the room. The witches turn around. "Follow me", Miss Wardwell wispers. They back up and she leads them into a small room.
"This room is not available for demons, the more people are in here the weak it gets, it's only designed for two people. We don't have much time. If he's in my house as well he's a danger to me as well. Shit." She runs her long fingers through her hair. "I do know parts of The Valley. I could...well." The door bangs. "Okay, Sabrina. Hilda. You will stay in this room. There is enough food for you two. Me and your aunt will go and find that damn flower. For fucks sake, I had something planned this week end." She inhales loudly, only to be interrupted by the demon banging his head against the wall.
"Sabrina, I love you very much." Zelda stands up and kisses the teenagers head in a moment of emotion. "Please hurry auntie Z, I believe in you." Sabrina hugs her.
"Keep an eye on her, Hilda." She says.
"We need to go." Miss Wardwell interrupts.
"I know." Zelda rolls her eyes. "How am I going to survive this fucking trip. If it were just me, I'd be okay, but this witch annoyes the hell out of me." She thinks, even though there is barely time, because the dark witch hushes. "Stay behind me and don't loose me, we are taking a secret path out of the house, it only works once so. Don't. Loose. Me. Or you will be stuck in the wall."
Grabbing her arm she drags Zelda behind and even though she's usually so tough her heart hammers against her chest.
Outside of the house the start to run.
"We will need a few supplies." Zelda says regaining her voice, mentality keeping track. So they buy a few camping supplies as well as food and water for a few days. After fifteen minutes they storm out of the store without paying, the employee smiling empty at the wall.
"Good trick" Zelda thinks to herself, she would never tell the women, but secretly she admires the fast actions.
They walk in silence following the compass Miss Wardwell brought.
She inhales probably to tell Zelda she's not properly dressed to go hiking but gets interrupted
"Just because you help our family, does not mean I like you, or am thankful. You are doing this for you as well as for our town, so don't expect a thank you."
To underline this she walks a bit faster, leaving the woman she does need a few feet behind.
"I am in charge here" she thinks to herself and smiles.
With that thought they cross the border between town and woods.