Clara closed her eyes. Eric thought she was going to lose it, but she just sighed and said, “Okay.” “‘Okay?’” said Eric, surprised. “A pack of little monsters just burst into my home like a scene out of an eighties horror movie,” she told him. “I watched Red over there cut one of them down with some kind of Jedi move. If witches is the explanation I’m going to get, then I guess I’ll take it.” “You’re an open-minded woman,” he told her. “And a nightmare with an umbrella. I’m impressed.”

