"Um..." Averella began to say, hoping to interjection some thought on the matter as the two old hags were asking the professor about giving up his parts. "Um, yes, excuse me?" But it seemed the conversation carried on, and her large green eyes simply blinked, a frown upon her lips as she adjusted herself from where she was still thrown over the bugbear's shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "You know a liver is rather important.." she tried to say, and then at the blood comment, "Goodness, that is quite a lot of blood." Especially considering, she no longer had any. But then when at long last the conversation did get to her, she found herself blinking again.
"Me?" she said, her lips falling open as she simply stared at the group. "I don't even think I possess half of the items they request and well, further more I'd rather us be going, and professor, if you could put me down, I am very capable of walking now..." she said, peering over her shoulder, "Oh dear.. where did the door go?" It seemed to all but have melted away.
"Oh..." the one sister held her eye up to examine Averella. "Is she the vampire book sorceress you speak of?"
Averella cringed as the eye was brought towards her, and noted the boney fingers around it and the goop and spider dangling off the eye. It reminded her too much of her own decomposition, and she shuffled uneasily about upon the professor's shoulder.
"I am not, that is to say, what you think I am," Averella began. "Now, professor, if you would so kindly place me down.."
And Addison's grin grew wicked as she took Averella's hand and gave it a sniff.
"Ah, she smells ripe as a corpse," the old croon cackled.
"A corpse?" her sister piped up.
"Yes, good heaven's, a very, very ancient corpse."
Averella's lips quivered before her mouth gaped open. SHe yanked her hand away, growing silent as she squirmed ontop of the bugbear's shoulder.
"We,.. should.. probably get going now..' Averella tried to warn him, seeing the darkened looks upon the two old hags. "I don't think they're offering to us what you think they're offering to us-"
"Oh, but we are," Addison pressed."
"Indeed," Ethel agreed, and as Addison stepped forward, she gestured to a large bone cage hanging from the ceiling, and then a cauldron brewing below it.
"If you'd deposit the lady intot he bone cage, we can take her off of your shoulders," Addison chuckled.
"Yes, and give you two potions for it," Ethel pressed with a purr.
"Yes, for we are quite interested in what she has to offer to us."
"Yes, ancient bones, withered heart.."
"Tongue of dust!" the second sister cackled,a dn soon, the pair of them were laughing and moving closer and closer towards the bugbear and Averella, cornering them against the side of their shop where the door had once been.
"So how's about it? A few helpful potions for a woman who has caused you misery," Addison pressed.
"Yes, think of all of the book fines you will be leaving behind!" Ethel reminded, and both sisters gave a sinister grin and dark eyed look at the pair.