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A small girl in a nightdress wanders down from the guest corridor.

Because Liam knows what she's capable of, there is a piece of paper firmly attached to the front of her clothes.

"My name is Megan. If I'm alone, my daddy is asleep upstairs in [insert room number here] and I've escaped. Please don't send me through the front door."

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"Now, light up your fingers." Lock shows her how, his fingertips blazing.

Not that she can, he knows this, she's a normal, human child, for pity's sake. And he does pity her. So he lights her fingers on fire. It only tickles though, because its dancing on the tips, not actually lighting the small digits at all.

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Megan giggles, delighted.

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"So Megan, you like Halloween, right? What have you dressed up as? Have you gotten your dad to dress up before?" Lock waves his fingers around, causing little flashes of light all around Megan's head.

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She watches them raptly, then focuses enough to answer his question, making a vague gesture to her head that might evoke a pointed hat.

"Witch! Not Daddy."

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Pointing at Shock, Lock smiles. "She's a witch too. But I bet you knew that."

Sparking some more, he schemes,

"Your daddy needs to dress up. We should make everybody in the Bar dress up. I mean, we're probably stuck here forever, and its boring here without Halloween."

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Megan pouts sympathetically.

"Stuck?"

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"We can't go home. No door in a tree in a Clearing. We can't go home to Halloween Town. That's where we're from. Its fun, I bet you'd like it." Lock grins and tells her more.
"We've got ghosts, vampires, witches, skeletons, ghouls and goblins, a demon clown and dead people, and gooey people and people with knives in their brains, and lots of other scary stuff!"

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Her eyes widen, awed.

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"I know! Its the best place ever! You know what, I bet you've seen us before. I bet we trick or treated with you. We go every year. We love treating with children like you. And if someone is mean and doesn't treat, we trick."

Lock's eyes glow devilishly.

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She looks at him uncertainly.

"'Stralia?"

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Lock gives her the same uncertain look.

"What does that mean?"

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"Home."

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"Oh! Ok. I get that. Yeah, home is good."
Lock looks at the retreating backs of his siblings.

"I should go, ok? It was nice meeting you!"

Lock waves as he runs after his siblings.