Blackwater Val
Then she retrieved twin broomsticks from where they stood beside a smoke-grained wall cupboard—handworked besoms with thick gnarled handles and sprigs of baby’s breath and amaranthus tied on with blue and white bindings.
. . . And away we go, thought Richard dizzily when he saw them.
Holding her two garnished brooms out together, the witch said, “Thomas, be so good as to prop these against the front door for me, will you? Handles crossed into an X.” He stood and took one, but before he could grab the other he witnessed Beulah sliding her hands over it now, moving arthritic, spice-powdered fingers up and down the crooked shaft in a suggestive manner. She grinned toothlessly at him.
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