The Whitby Witches 3: The Whitby Child (45 page)

Hurriedly, Jennet ran over to him. "Ben!" she cried. "Are you all right? What's the matter, what have you..?"

Her voice died, for she too looked down at the figures and she clasped her hands over her mouth as she burst into tears.

"You see them!" Ben shrieked, bouncing up and down on the chairs. "You see them! The Lords of the Deep and Dark can do anything! They can do anything!"

The children raced to the door and wrenched it open, just as The Rodice was tripping up the stairs in a state of great agitation.

"This is most irregular!" she exclaimed shrilly. "Most exceedingly irregular! I really don't understand... !"

Standing aside to let the visitors past, she stared at the ecstatic faces of the children framed in the doorway and shrugged.

Jennet and Ben gazed through their joyful tears at the man and woman before them, then with a happy yell—they ran into their parents' arms.