Of Hair And No Hair: Rapunzel is knocking on Gretchen's door looking for hair advice. (Gretchen's (Mis)Adventures - Season One Book 2) by P.A. Mason

Author:P.A. Mason [Mason, P.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Drawing up the contract was tedious with Ewan left to the particulars, and Gretchen sprinted back to the carriage with her de-hair potion as the crowd milled around the vegetable displays. She flew past Nora who gave her an impatient frown and dived in the carriage's side to her hairy produce. The growth was out of control, and she had to hack away at the mess of curls to be sure the pumpkin was still underneath it.

Uncorking the bottle with her teeth, she sprinkled it over the top and rubbed the elixir into the orange flesh. “C’mon,” She spat the cork out and pulled at the hair. “Out you come.”

It started at the tips, golden locks turning brown and shriveling, and crept up toward the roots where they broke away from the skin. Gretchen wiped the mess away, her nose twitching at the dust, and marveled at the clean surface left behind. No sign of unnatural follicles or spots. With a victorious whoop, she pushed aside the curtain and grinned at Rapunzel who had come to take a look.

“What have you done?” she craned her neck to get a better look. “You were gone for ages.”

“Just a de-hair potion I whipped up.” Gretchen shined her fingernails on her shirt. “Cost a year’s worth of hauling around sacks of skin, but I’ll wager this thing is bigger than Mildred’s.”

Rapunzel’s eyes widened, and Gretchen spun to follow her gaze. The pumpkin shuddered, its flesh rippling.

“Is it supposed to do that?”

Gretchen’s mind raced. The pumpkin had two dousing’s of magic in one day. One to counter another. It wasn’t out of the realms of probability that it could cause some instability. She glared at the vegetable, daring it to try again, and it sat inanimate, like nothing had happened.

“A side effect is all,” Gretchen coughed. “Now, we need to get this baby to the contest. I don’t know where Jurgen’s gotten to, but I can’t carry it out myself.”

Rapunzel eyed the pumpkin askance but shrugged, waving Gretchen away so she could get hold of it. As she hefted it toward the line of contestants, Gretchen ripped her curtain free of the carriage doorway and trotted ahead to lay it out on the grass. When Rapunzel lowered it to the ground Gretchen fancied she’d heard a rumble, but pushed worry from her mind and stood proudly in line.

“What took you so long?” Farmer McBride nodded up the line where Nora already had her measuring tape out and was sizing up Mildred’s entry.

“Had to see a gal about a cat.” Gretchen shrugged and held a hand to her belly which churned with nerves.

It didn’t take long for Nora to make her way down the procession, first divining for any magical interference and then measuring both the height and girth of each pumpkin. She threw a few suspicious glances her way, but Gretchen only waved back with a smile.

“That thing sounds like it’s got a bellyache,” Rapunzel hissed.

She was bent almost double, and Gretchen eyed her over with a frown.

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