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face.
    “How could you eat something that
used to breathe, think, have a heartbeat, and a face?” Malicia asked in
disgust. “It’s disgusting.”
    Makicia rolled her eyes. “I was
just joking. We know you’re a vegetarian. You don’t have to fuss. I just asked
a simple question. All you had to do was say yes or no.”
    “Look who’s talking. You told off
that boy at school just for touching your shoulder,” Malicia said through a
mouthful of cereal.
    “That was after I told him to leave
me alone and he wouldn’t piss off,” said Makicia.
    “Since when have you been a
vegetarian?” Laqiya asked stopping the bickering between her sisters.
    “Where have you been?” Makicia
asked. “She hasn’t touched meat in months.”
    “And there’s Nightshield,” Malicia
announced.
    Nightshield slipped through the
door and seated herself in a chair.
    “That cat’s too smart for her own
good…” Makicia muttered as she glanced at Nightshield and then looked away at
Isis as she entered the room.
      “Where have you been all morning? Working on
your spell for eternal youth that only works on the evening of Halloween?” she
teased.
    “Yes, and I was also making deal
with vengeful sprits who agreed to bring me the necessary souls as long as I
give them a human skin as a disguise for tonight,” Isis said sarcastically.
    “I was just teasing.”
    “Leave Isis alone,” Laqiya said
sighing.
    “Oh yeah,” Makicia said rolling her
eyes. “That’s right. You’re a witch too.”
    Laqiya only grabbed the sprayer
from where she was rinsing out a cup and aimed at Makicia who ducked out the
way.
    “Hey,” she said. “Just
saying. Weird stuff always does happen around you! Animals never run
from you. Aren’t they supposed to be more afraid of us than we are of them?”
    After a long discussion about
whether or not Laqiya was a witch, including all the weird things that seemed
to happen around her as proof (the mountain lion incident on a camping trip
mainly), the four girls headed upstairs, deciding to take advantage of the time
they had before all the Halloween festivities began. They almost managed to get
out the house before their mother caught them from where she was in the dining
room.
    “Where are you going?” Miss Robins
asked.
    “You said we could go to a
Halloween party tonight and sleep over,” Malicia said gesturing to the bag she
was holding in her hand.
    Miss Robins nodded and looked at
the two older girls.
    “Out,” Isis and Laqiya said.
    “Make sure you’re back by six. I
don’t want you out late on Halloween,” Miss Robins said absently as she looked
over a design she was sketching. “But if you are out late, at least make sure
you at a friend’s house, like that Sakura girl or Adria.”
    “Why so careful?” Makicia asked.
“It’s just Halloween.”
    Laqiya replied before her mother
could.
    “All the sickos and weirdoes come out
on Halloween. Nephthys used to carry pepper spray,” she said shrugging.
    Miss Robins paused what she was
doing to ask, “Where did Nephthys get pepper spray from?”
    “You’d be surprised how much stuff
my sister can get her hands on,” Isis said.
    “Yeah. She
got that whip and then taught herself to use it. Remember?” asked Laqiya as she
opened the door. “See you later Ma,”
    The four girls left the house and
went their separate ways. Once out of view of the twins Nightshield turned to
her human form.
    “So what are you two doing
tonight?” she asked.
    “I don’t know. I just wanted to get
out before I have to stay inside for the rest of the evening watching scary
movies,” Laqiya replied as she started to walk backwards.
    “No trick or treating?” Nightshield
asked
    Laqiya shrugged.
    “My mother never liked Halloween,
but she lets the twins go with friends. They might be going tonight as part of
that party. Personally I don’t really like Halloween,” Laqiya muttered. When a
person could control nature and got called a witch from time