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The Never Ending Quest - Episode 118798

That sounded reasonable to Cinnamon, and she nodded easily without thinking.

"Wonderful," said the witch, licking her lips, and gestured towards the baby. Cinnamon crossed the room, her movements slow as if in a dream, and picked her up out of her crib, whereupon she began crying at once. The hag held out her gnarled hand, and Cinnamon placed hers within it, though she shuddered at its touch.

A swirl of darkness enveloped them, and Cinnamon found herself standing with Nina in her arms in a hut carrying the putrid scents of a swamp. She wrinkled her nose, horror beginning to overcome her as it dawned on her what had just happened, but the hag said pleasantly, "Welcome home."

Now, of course, with her verbiage, the hag had not really promised anything at all, though that had gone entirely over Cinnamon's head. The door was now open for her to "fix" Cinnamon in whatever way she desired. And as Cinnamon had willingly brought Nina here, the hag could do as she wanted with her as well. And here was what she had in mind...

  1. she would turn Cinnamon into a great horrible monster to prowl around her swamp - "fixing" her weakness, as it were - and take Nina to raise to be a hag like her.
  2. she would "fix" Cinnamon's muteness by giving her the "voice" of an animal, and give the same to Nina.
  3. she would "fix" Cinnamon's muteness by transforming her into a noisy animal, and do the same to Nina.
  4. she would transform Cinnamon back into Fred, and the three of them would be one big happy cursed family.
  5. she would "fix" Cinnamon's guilt by making her hate Allaria, and want it destroyed by the dragon. Under the hag's watchful eye, she would teach Nina to feel the same.
  6. she would "fix" Cinnamon's attachment to her family by transforming her into a cat, and Nina into a mouse.
  7. she would "fix" Cinnamon's attachment to her family by transforming Nina into a hideous beast.
  8. she would "fix" Cinnamon's preoccupation with beauty [109606] by making her hideous, and teaching her to be a hag, and to teach Nina in turn.

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