Christmas Lights and Magic

I went to watch our local Christmas Lights get turned on last night.  I knew it was going to be freezing so I asked Gran to hook me up with a warmth spell to keep me warm.  She said she couldn't keep all of me warm but knew a spell to keep in my gloves and that would keep them toasty at least.

She mixed lots of herbs together and kind of smashed them down, next she got her Book of Shadows out and found the right spell.  She said some words, which to me sounded like Latin!  The herbs sort of glowed for a bit and then went dark again.  She put the herbs into 2 little fabric pockets and told me to put them inside my gloves. 

I walked into the village with Roman, Thorn and Savannah with my nice toasty gloves in check.  I didn't tell them what was inside, not because they wouldn't understand, more because I knew they would try and take them off me lol.

The lights were meant to go on at 7pm but we were still standing there looking at the sky at 7.30pm.  Kids all around moaning they were cold.  One kid was screaming so much I nearly offered him my gloves but not quite!  Then all the lights came on and it was all worth the cold.  Lovely twinkling white and coloured lights in the trees and shop windows.  We even had a Merry Christmas Hazy Meadows sign all lit up.   It made everything feel really christmasy.  We ate roasted chestnuts (yuk) and had hot chocolate from one of the many stands there.

All in all it was a great night, one thing that was bothering me was a strange blond haired girl of about our age.  Everywhere we went she seemed to be in the crowd watching me.  She seemed to have loads of friends with her but she wasn't talking to any of them and really didn't seem to want to be with them.  One time I caught her staring and gave her a shy smile but she seemed really embarrassed and disappeared into the crowds of people after that.  Weird girl!

The good thing was my hands were really warm all evening and this morning when I went for a walk in the woods (again looking for Pywacket) when I put my hands in the gloves they were still warm.