Once Upon a Time

Chapter 15

Faith and Finn had made a fire and the three of them were now sitting around it, warming up.

‘So tell me what are fairy tales?’ Finn asked Hope.

Faith looked at Hope with widened eyes. Hope frowned her eyebrows at the sight of Faith’s face.

‘What?’ Hope mouthed as she put a lock of her long brown hair behind her ear.

‘Are you sure I don’t know you? You look really familiar.’ Faith said changing the subject.

‘Nope, never met or seen you before.’ Finn said.

‘What happened to your neck?’ Finn asked changing the subject again.

Faith lifted her hand up to her neck.

‘She was killed by the witch in the house that’s made of candy.’ Hope said.

‘What?’ Finn asked.

‘Killed? But she’s alive.’ Finn said.

‘Did I say killed? I mean almost killed as you can see, because she is still alive, still sitting there, breathing with a beating heart-‘ Hope started.

‘Almost killed.’ Faith interrupted.

Hope took in a deep breath. She was certainly not a good liar. Finn frowned a bit and then looked at Hope.

‘You managed to get out of that place?’ Finn asked.

‘I think so as we are sitting here right now.’ Hope said.

‘How?’ Finn asked.

‘No one has ever come out of that house, except for two little children.’ Finn said.

‘Hansel and Gretel.’ Hope said.

‘Yes, do you know them?’ Finn asked.

‘Nope.’ Hope said.

‘They are witch hunters now.’ Finn said.

‘Really?’ Hope asked.

Finn nodded.

‘Awesome.’ Hope said.

‘But how did you manage to get away from the witch?’ Finn asked.

‘We escaped.’ Hope said.

‘How?’ Finn asked.

‘The witch wasn’t looking and I managed to open the cages we were in and we ran away.’ Faith said fast before Hope could say anything.

‘Really? Fascinating.’ Finn said.

‘I have to go now.’ Finn said.

‘Really?’ Hope asked.

‘Yes, but we’ll meet again soon.’ Finn said standing up.

‘Are you sure you don’t want to stay, it’s dark.’ Hope said.

‘It was dark just an hour ago when you were wandering around in the forest alone.’ Finn said.

‘You were in a forest?’ Faith asked.

‘Yes, I couldn’t find any sticks.’ Hope explained.

Faith shook her head as she sighed.

‘Why were you late again?’ Faith asked.

‘You haven’t asked me that yet.’ Hope said.

‘Were you being eaten by a troll?’ Faith asked.