Before I could ask Bart to elaborate on his statement, Dad insisted on getting something to drink and eat first, because he was very tired from having a lot of his bodily fluids sucked from his body and needed to regain his energy before he could listen to Bart’s story. I got him a glass of water and a ham sandwich from the kitchen, while Bart used a healing spell to alleviate some of Dad’s pain. Bart also used his magic to do away with the marionette spider’s corpse and its extra webbing, casting a spell that banished the remains of the marionette spider to the Shadow Way where it would probably be found and eaten by another marionette spider at some point (according to Bart, marionette spiders had a tendency to eat their dead, which added another level of creepiness to them that made me
