The Witches Page #2

[in raspy voice] Boy.

[drawling] Boy.

Do you like sweets?

[snake hissing]

She is tame.

Very sweet.

[hissing]

Give her a kiss.

[Grandma coughing]

[Grandma] Young man.

You want those nails, you better come on…

[continues coughing]

Yes, Raymond, that’s more like it.

[Hero] Grandma, I need to tell you something!

Not now, son.

But, Grandma… [coughs] I thought you wanted those nails.

Forget it. Let’s just go.

[continues coughing]

Yeah.

Let’s just go.

[thunder rumbling]

Hey.

Son, what were you trying to tell me in the grocery store this morning?

You were shaking like a leaf.

Don’t worry about that, Grandma.

I just want you to feel better.

I feel fine.

You just tell me what you were trying to say.

Looked like you were about to have a conniption fit.

[sighs heavily]

I don’t know what I saw.

It was a scary lady.

She called to me.

But when she did, when she talked, her mouth… Was she wearing gloves?

Long ones, up to her elbows?

Was she wearing a hat?

It looked like she had a towel on her head or something.

And when she talked, did her voice sound ugly and scratchy like an outhouse door swinging on a rusty hinge?

Oh. [sighs]

I feared this was happening.

That lady you saw in the grocery store was no lady.

What you saw was a witch.

[thunder claps]

A witch?

That’s right.

A no-good, rotten, low-down, sneaky, sneaky witch.

Okay. Okay.

Is this you and your church friends trying to play a joke on me?

‘Cause if it is, it’s not very funny.

Listen, child.

Witches ain’t nothing to joke about.

I’ve known children who no longer exist as children on this earth.

They were turned, transformed, taken by witches.

[thunder claps]

[Hero gasps]

I can tell you about Alice Blue.

Well, Alice Blue and I were best friends.

We lived across the street from each other.

We were like sisters.

Inseparable.

We did everything together, even our chores.

But Alice was a lollygagger.

Alice, quit lollygagging, girl.

It’s almost suppertime.

[steam hisses]

[Grandma] Alice did something no child should ever do.

She took candy from a stranger.

[ominous music playing]

I got so scared, I tore out of there like greased lightning, and hightailed it straight home.

I never should have left Alice alone.

I knew I shouldn’t have.

But I was so scared.

Later that night, when I saw Alice alive, I was as happy as a mouse in a bucket of cheese.

But the very next morning, all that happiness went away because it happened.

[whispers] She started turning.

[shrieks]

[clucking]

[crowing]

[clucking]

[crows]

Alice was chicken-afied.

Chicken-alified.

[clucking continues]

Lordy!

Look at the size of that chicken.

Y’all seen where Alice run off to?

She’s right… there.

[woman] What you talking about, child?

Where’d she go?

[Grandma] I tried to explain what I saw, but everybody was looking at me like I was crazy.

Finally, I just shut up about it.

Although, I made it a point to visit Alice in her coop every day.

[chicken groans]

Hi, Alice.

[clucking]

[Grandma] Alice even laid eggs.

Big green ones.

Biggest green eggs I ever seen.

People said they were delicious.

What about the witch?

What about her?

Did she go away?

Oh, my, no.

Once a witch come into your life, it never…

[thunder cracking]

[whispers] Never… Oh, my, Lord in Heaven.

What am I thinking?

I just told you we saw a witch today.

A witch in the grocery store.

And what am I doing?

Sitting here like I’m blind in one eye and can’t see out the other, wasting precious time lollygagging.

[thunder continues rumbling]

[older Hero] Always wondered what Grandma kept in that locked closet.

Turns out it was full of medicinal herbs and elixirs, and old books about ancient healing.

Now, my mom always said Grandma was sort of a country-type healer.

But now I was starting to think she might be a voodoo priestess.

Child, we need to leave.

Leave?

That’s right, leave.

It’s not safe for us here.

But where we gonna go?

I’ll call my cousin, Eston.

Have him make a reservation for us at the Grand Orleans Imperial Island Hotel.

He was the executive chef there for over 30 years.

He’s got pull there.

[chuckles]

He’s a star.

His cooking put that hotel on the map.

It’s the swankiest resort in all of Alabama.

You’ll be telling your grandkids about your stay in this hotel.

[Hero] How do you know we’ll be safe there?

Because, child, ain’t nothing but rich white folks at the Grand Orleans Imperial Island Hotel.

And witches only prey on the poor, the overlooked, the kids they think nobody’s gonna make a fuss about if they go missing.

Go pack!

[Hero] Grandma, are there

witches in every city?

[Grandma] Every city, every state, every country.

And there’s a secret society of witches in every country called a coven.

That’s just like a Rotary Club but for witches.

They all get together in one place and gossip about who they put spells on, or trade potion secrets, and whatnot.

But most important, they receive orders from the Grand High Witch.

The Grand High Witch?

The Grand High Witch, yeah.

She’s the ruler of them all.

All-powerful, pure evil,

and without a stitch of mercy.

Yeah. Legend has it, she was hatched on the frozen tundra of Norway.

Now, take a look at that.

What, you just gonna stand there and stare at me all day?

Can I help you?

You can unload this car while

I check in to this here hotel.

Yes, ma’am.

Here’s the key.

Oh, and… No.

You keep your money, ma’am.

And enjoy yourself.

I think I will.

[older Hero] Grandma was right about this hotel.

It sure was fancy.

She brought us to the Gulf of Mexico to get away from that witch.

But she had no idea what we were about to step into.

[Daisy sniffing]

[whispers]

Be careful with the mouse.

[man] No.

[woman] For God’s sake, I think you’re being extremely unreasonable.

[man] No, Deidre.

For the last time, I will not have that woman in my house.

[woman] Oh, she’s very good company.

[man] Absolutely not, Deidre.

[woman] Oh, for God’s sake,

Bruno, your face.

Obviously can’t take you anywhere.

[receptionist]

Here you are, ma’am.

Come on, we got our key.

We are in room 766.

[Hero] Sounds like a good room.

[Grandma coughing]

You okay, Grandma?

[coughs]

That’s the first time you coughed since we left the house.

Can I help you, madam?

[coughs]

Oh! You must be Eston’s cousins.

Yes, he insisted that you stay in room 766.

That’s the Magnolia.

This is one of our most lovely junior suites.

[Grandma chuckles]

And aren’t you a lucky fella? Hmm?

It’s not every day that a young gentleman such as yourself is fortunate to come and stay in such a fine hotel as this now, is it?

Come on, Gatsby.

Let’s go.

Let’s go find our room.

Would you like me to show you?

It’s on the fourth floor.

[Grandma] Mmm.

[Hero] Grandma, if we’re on the fourth floor,

Why is it number 7-6-6?

Because the man who built this hotel was a numerologist.

He believed numbers have meaning.

I know a little something about numbers.

Seven and six together means a test is coming.

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