“I heard that,” the doctor said over his shoulder. “I thought you liked shazam. And hocus pocus dominocus. And…”
“What, no smoke? Little off your game today?”
‘One spell coming up, no smoke. If you would just step into the center of the pentagram,” the doctor said, still laughing, and then got to work, first setting out the four candles at the cardinal points of the pentagram: dark green for the north, red for the south, yellow for the east, and blue for the west. Earth, fire, air, and water. Then, he carefully set out four more candles, all white, on a low table that faced a bricked-in window. The doctor set a wooden frame in the middle of the table and in the frame, he hung a white bowl, the insides of which, Gavin knew, were sky blue. Beneath the suspended bowl, he set another candle,
