Chapter 21
The Third Phoenix Girl
Halloween night saw the streets of Dogwood overrun with trick-or-treaters, and though more adults than usual walked with them and stood guard at every street corner, there was no fear. Only the giddy, harmless frights of Halloween haunted houses and the usual assortment of kid-sized monsters.
Penny and Zoe were allowed to go around alone, as long as they returned to Sullivan’s, which Susan had kept open late to hand out Halloween treats, every now and then.
This season’s most popular costumes were robes, red and green mostly, worn in homage to the mysterious Dogwood witches who had gained an almost mythic status since the fair.
Though the stories behind the rescue varied wildly depending on whom you talked to, most agreed that the mysterious green and
