The Ravencroft Family

OK, So after my little fright at Savannah's house the other day I decided to ask around.  I knew Gran had some background info on Savannah's family coz I remember her telling me something about them a while ago.  So I made an excuse to go round Gran's for tea and pick her brain about my new mysterious friend.

Gran seemed really happy to see me, which made me feel guilty what with having an ulterior motive and all!  She made me a fabulous tea and we ate loads of cakes.  On the subject of cakes I am sure she uses some kind of magic in her ingredients, she makes the most yummy chocolate cupcakes with little bits of glitter on the top.  Anyway I am getting off track.

After tea I got straight to the point and asked her outright everything she knew about the Ravencroft family.  Gran told me Savannah's family go way back to the witch trials or something.  Savannah's great great great (you get the idea) grandmother was burnt at the stake during the trials.  Only difference with this trial was she really was a witch!  She had been caught helping a local child in the village she lived in.  The child was born really sickly but as she grew she was getting weaker and weaker.   I suppose in this day and age the child would have been diagnosed with Asthma but in those days no one knew what was wrong with the child.  Savannah's grandmother was only trying to help her apparently, she mixed alot of herbs together from her garden and made a kind of paste with them, she then spread them on the child's chest.   Unfortunately a few weeks later the child died of an Asthma attack in the night and the villagers decided it was Sarah Ravencroft's "magical potion" that had caused her untimely death.  She was outed as a witch and that was that.

Gran also told me the family are very mysterious (so its not just me who thinks that) and they tend to keep themselves to themselves.  I already knew about the story of Savannah's twin brother and the wild animal attack.  Gran said at the time it was very sad and everyone had a different opinion on what had happened.

I am determined to find out more about my new friend.  Sometimes she seems really happy and content, then she gets this look on her face like she is thinking about something really unpleasant and she seems to drift off into another world. 

Savannah Ravencroft I am gonna find out what makes you sad, I also need to get Pywacket back as he seems to really like her too.