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The snail looks around at the mention of wings, as if reassuring itself there isn't anything on the wing and incoming. But it makes a happy gurgling noise at the mention of caramel apple and scoots forward another few inches toward her (leaving an unfortunate trail of glistening slime behind). It opens its mouth wide, begging like a baby bird.

Letting out a soft laugh, Ruby gave the caramel apple to the Snail. "Careful of the stick in the middle. And hope you have a safe and wonderful Halloween!" she spoke, smiling brightly.

At the bidding of some of her friends, Shelley had dressed up as Princess Leia this Halloween. Her friend Matt had suggested an outfit from one of the later movies, but Shelley had chosen to go with the original look: a floor-length white dress with long sleeves and a high neckline, white boots, and her long brown hair done up in a pair of spiral buns, one on each side of her head.

Shelley had heard that there was a circus in town with a haunted house attraction as part of their Halloween celebration, so she decided she'd give it a try. When she arrived she encountered a woman dressed as a ringmaster. Shelley didn't know if the woman was an actual ringmaster or just dressed as one for Halloween, but she was definitely with the circus and seemed to be the right person to approach. "Happy Halloween!" said Shelley. "I heard yinz are holding a haunted house for this year's Halloween celebration, so I thought I'd check it out."

The snail is not careful of the stick in the center. It grinds the apple to mush in its mouth, occasional bits of apple sauce dribbling out of the corner of its mouth, and then swallows the whole mess down. Immediately, it gags on the stick, and ends up in a wet coughing fit. The coughing fit seems to get worse in the middle - strange, because by this point it has hacked up and spat out the stick that caused the original problem. After a few more seconds of phlegmy coughing, it spits out... an entire deck of tarot cards? These are weirdly pristine, no slime on them at all, and even seem to be in their original packaging complete with shrink wrap. The snail stares at the box of cards on the floor, perplexed.

Then it sneezes, and abruptly vanishes in a mushroom cloud of smoke.