THE BAD SKOON
‘If you don’t behave, I’ll send you to where the ferns grow, and there you’ll be eaten by the Bad Skoon.’
The witch’s daughter narrowed her eyes and presented to her mother a skeptical expression on her as of yet still smooth green face.
‘Oh, there’s no such thing. And if there is, what is it? And I don’t care because I’ve got my powers ready.’
The witch mother snorted an impressive snort from her long bumpy green nose.
‘Your pitiful powers will be no match for the Bad Skoon. It has a great round lump of a body and 8 long poison fern leaf legs. One touch and you freeze, only to slowly melt until nothing is left but your still seeing eyes, which the Bad Skoon then gobbles up with a terrible gnashing of its daggery teeth.’
The witch’s daughter thought this new information over.
‘Well, mother, I have decided to clean the cauldron after all.’
The witch mother nodded once.
‘I thought you might.’
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