Chapter 9

However after one step, Lessie collapsed on the floor. She was clutching her stomach and crying out loud,

“My tummy! Oh God! My tummy! It hurts!!!”

She was rolling on the cold floor, bending her knees and both hands holding her stomach. Anyone looking at her could feel the pain she was going through.
The wolf looked at her and wondered what was wrong. Then, his eyes lit up and remembered something.

“Didn’t you say the witch gave you food just now?” he asked.

“You see, the food is only good if you agree with the witch. But as soon as you show any feeling of disagreement with her, the food will turn to poison. That is why you are suffering now. This is her way of punishing you”.

Lessie was already crying. The pain was unbearable and she felt like she was dying. She started thinking of her family and was sobbing uncontrollably. She missed the security and comfort of her home badly

“Oh wolf, help me please! You are scaring me. I don’t want to die here. Please think of something. Please. It’s hurting me badly!”
The wolf was panicky for a while because he was relying on her to help him defeat the witch. It was so difficult because the witch always seemed to know if there was anybody planning anything against her.

Then, he gave a loud wolf cry, ‘ Ahhhoooooooo……..’, and shouted,

“Yes! Brave one, didn’t you take a bar of chocolate from the house where you found me just now? I know you kept half of the chocolate in the pocket of the jacket. Is it still there?”

Painfully Lessie struggled to put her hands in the pocket of the jacket, and took out the half bar of chocolate.

“Yes wolf. I still have it.”

“Good,” the wolf said.

“I believe we have found the cure to your pain. Now eat that chocolate because it comes from a different world and it would cure any poison or protect you from any spell that the witch gives you in this world!”

Gladly, Lessie put the chocolate in her mouth and painfully began chewing it. There was no difference. Fear was creeping in again. Then she swallowed the first mouthful of the chocolate.

Immediately she began to feel the effect. Her stomach was gradually becoming better. This went on for the next few minutes until she was totally free of any pain. It was a miracle.

As if she was given a new life, Lessie jumped up and patted the wolf’s head and said,

“Thank you my dear friend. Now come, we have a job to finish.”
….and the two new friends walked out of the room, determined to fight the evil witch and return the world to its natural condition.