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October 31. Thirty one backwards was thirteen, a supposedly unlucky number; October, from the root oct, meaning eight, maintaining its Roman ground despite no longer being the eighth month. All Hallow's Eve was certainly something never celebrated in the Price household, so Adah didn't feel any inclination to dress up or anything like that. She figured her personality was dark and cynical enough to meet the holiday without costumes to add to it. She did support the theory of rotting teeth out of your mouth so you either looked like the witch you were trying to resemble or one of the ear-pulling Crawley children she barely escaped spending her entire education with, though, as indicative of the bowl of suckers set in front of the books and notebooks and pens spread around the desk. However, there was a catch, a small scrap of writing attached to it:

Lliw reh tsniaga neve
Evol ll'ehs noos, gnivol won ton fi,
Evig ll'ehs tub, stfig tpecca t'nseod ehs,
Eusrup ll'ehs noos, seelf ehs fi rof.
Have the poet? Get a sweet.
Don't quite know it? Ah! Defeat!

She had a temptation to go with Poe, but realized that, considering the day, that would have been too easy, and, besides, she couldn't quite get this one out of her head lately.

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Hoshi was there as soon as Miss Connell agreed to take the rest of her shift at the hotel. And yes, she was still green. "Any luck?" she asked Katara.

"I think I might have found it," Katara said. "Well, okay, it's one of two things, I think. Either Jim found a cursed pumpkin and we need to destroy it. ...or he's under a curse of the ancient Pharaohs and will only stop trying to pumpkin us if we sacrifice him to the gods. ...I'm hoping for the first."

Hoshi frowned. "Yeah, I wouldn't want to sacrifice him to the gods, even if he tried to convince me that his name was Pam the first time we met. I guess we could see if we could find this cursed pumpkin before we jump to conclusions. If the pumpkin exists, then we know it's the first option, right?"

"Unless we don't find the pumpkin, sacrifice Jim, and my shoulder never, ever turns un-pumpkiny," Katara pointed out.

"Let's call that a worst-case scenario that we want to avoid," suggested Hoshi.

Katara poked at her shoulder. "Well...yeah. I'm good with the avoiding of the pumpkin-forever situation. Did you hear the radio? A bunch more people got hit last night!"

"I heard," said Hoshi, looking worried.

"Okay, so, looking for the pumpkin. If you were a cursed pumpkin, where would you hide?" Katara asked.

"As far away from a kitchen as possible," replied Hoshi. "I'm sure the cursed pumpkin doesn't want to end up as pumpkin pie."

Katara giggled. "Do you think eating cursed pumpkin pie would turn everyone into a pumpkin headed rider?"

"I don't know. If you bake a curse pumpkin, does that count as destroying it?" asked Hoshi. "If not, is it destroyed when you digest it?"

Katara made a face. "Ick." She flipped back through her book. "This says that the only way to destroy the cursed pumpkin is to burn it at sunset. So...probably not with the whole digestion thing."

Something occurred to Hoshi. "Would Jim need to keep the pumpkin somewhere nearby? I mean, if he just left it out in the open, someone else could come along and start carving his pumpkin or whatever."

"Probably!" Katara agreed quickly. "That makes sense. In his room maybe?"

"That's where I would hide something," said Hoshi, grinning.

"Excellent deduction," Katara said with a nod. "I believe he lives on the second floor. We could go check to see if anyone's around."

"Good idea," said Hoshi.

"Let's go then! ()" she said, standing up quickly and taking the book of legends with her.

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