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"What am I to do now?"

He asked, giving the lady a sane reason to look at him. He couldn't cope with all she had been doing to him, that was fact but he wasn't getting bored again.

The lady had made him eat the dust for as long as possible before she had tapped the back of his head with probably a peg, that was what it felt like: when he had stood up, he couldn't find a thing in her hand.

The both of them at that moment were standing at the mouth of that cave and it seemed as though the noise would never come again.

Probably those who were in knew she was there.

Vulcan was thinking quickly. If those ladies in there had kept quiet because of the arrival of the witch, that meant that she was up to no good to them.

The lady didn't let his words a reply. She looked at him only, he achieved that. Then she turned to the cave and rolled away what was close to the tombstone serving as its door.

Then she turned to him again,

"Step in."