“You stay away from my family, Abellona.” my mama said summing up the courage and resolve to confront her as she picked herself up off the ground. “It’s funny how much you sound like her, your mother that is, Janine. You know that was something she actually used to say to me too? You stay away from my family, Abellona. You stay away.” Abellona said in a mocking tone. “Do you want to know how I killed her? It was quite simple really. Lyanna was quite the powerful witch and rather intelligent too. But in the end, it was her sheer arrogance that finally gave me the opportunity to do her in. Do you know what it was that I used to kill her?” Abellona said asking my mama with a raised eyebrow before letting out that sick, little laugh of hers and then saying, “It was wild cucumber.”
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She recalled cases of scarlet fever, mumps, measles, and rubella to have hit the village, killing scores. She even told me that there was once a bout with Ecoli that had swept through the school killing seven students back in the early 1990’s when she was still a student there. Then, she told me about how she was relentlessly teased and attacked by her classmates whenever the teacher’s back been turned, and even sometimes when their backs weren’t turned. She told me about how every pet she’d ever owned had either got sick and died, or got run over by a car, or was found mysteriously mutilated out in the forest. (I can vouch for how she must have felt on two out of three of those.) She even told me in detail of how each one of her family dogs Trixie, Dolly, and Lucky had died violently. (Lucky, you would’ve thought that after her first two dogs had died such horrible death she would’ve been a little smarter to name the third one
She recalled cases of scarlet fever, mumps, measles, and rubella to have hit the village, killing scores. She even told me that there was once a bout with Ecoli that had swept through the school killing seven students back in the early 1990’s when she was still a student there. Then, she told me about how she was relentlessly teased and attacked by her classmates whenever the teacher’s back been turned, and even sometimes when their backs weren’t turned. She told me about how every pet she’d ever owned had either got sick and died, or got run over by a car, or was found mysteriously mutilated out in the forest. (I can vouch for how she must have felt on two out of three of those.) She even told me in detail of how each one of her family dogs Trixie, Dolly, and Lucky had died violently. (Lucky, you would’ve thought that after her first two dogs had died such horrible death she would’ve been a little smarter to name the third one