A quiet day with Jennifer Jane 7/7

She was half way back to the goblin village, when she heard someone coming along the path towards her. Fortunately it was her father, who’d come to find her to say dinner was ready.

Jennifer Jane explained what had happened and then let her father carry Eve while she ran on ahead to ring for an ambulance. Mary was waiting in the kitchen when he got home, with some bandages and a bowl of water to tidy the patient up and try and stop the bleeding.

Jennifer Jane reversed her twiddles as best she could, but by this time she wasn’t quite sure how many she’d used. Eve wasn’t saying very much, she was obviously quite weak by now and being back to more or less her normal weight was making her leg more painful. However at last the ambulance turned up and the men took Eve off to the hospital.

“I don’t know how you do it!” said dad, “bicycle saddles for witch apprentices, instant car cleaning using magic, a sailing trip in our boat, being jumped on by a baby dragon and finally rescuing a lady in distress by carrying her over your shoulder and climbing a steep cliff,. All in all I’d say that was a pretty quiet day by your standards!”

However, that wasn’t quite the end of the story. A few days later Eve hobbled in to the kitchen, using a crutch and with her leg in plaster.

“I’ve come to say thank you to all your family, especially to your remarkably strong young daughter. I know she was very keen on having one of our ‘magic’ badges when she first saw one, so I had a word with the other members of our group and we decided to make her an honorary member. I think it’s rather appropriate, because if I didn’t know better, I would have thought she actually used magic to get me up that cliff.”

Jennifer Jane took her badge and thanked Eve very much for the kindness. She went upstairs to put the new badge in her room and heard Eve telling her mother that she’d lost a lot of weight since she’d been in hospital.

“Do you know my dear; I’ve never been so light since I first grew up. I think it must be the country air and the natural food that we eat.”

“Oh crumbs!” thought Jennifer Jane, “I couldn’t have done enough twiddles to get her weight back to what it used to be. I’ll have to get Abigail to teach me a spell to make things normal as soon as I can.”