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A clean summer day. The trees and leaves are twinkling in front of the eyes. Scared birds scatter in different directions. The young witch flies on a flying broom. Ammm... young clumsy* witch.

Suddenly her broom catch the branch of the tree... And clumsy witch is falling down right on the anthill. While falling from the tree, she demolish one branch with green leaves that stuck in her hair near the ear.

Before Sabrina understand what happened, she felt ant bites and despite of pain in her back young witch jumped up and started to shudder. Because ants were everywhere, even at her nose.

Young man stood behind the tree with an opened mouth and didn't know what to do first, to wonder where she came from or to laugh because of her funny moves...

Cole came out and said "Do you need some help?" Sabrina was surpriced to see the stranger here, so she shuddered again. Then she said "Hurry! Find my handbag get the magic wand out of there and bring it to me!!!  He did what she said, so one minute later Sabrina took her magic wand and remove all the ants from her body by single spell.

"Who are you and how did you suddenly appear here from nowhere?" Asked Cole. "Grrrr... does it matter? I wanted to ask you the same question..." said young witch and evaluated him by one short look, while putting herself in order. "I am Cole from the near village. Two weeks ago our family bought a house there. So I came here to gather some mushrooms and suddenly I saw you fell down from nowhere, like something threw you out." said Cole.

"Ok, I am Sabrina from this forest, I fell down because of... bad quality of my broom. And as you can see, I am a witch..." young witch introduced herself and suddenly remembered that she is in a hurry. "I am late, my mother will kill me, because I should bring her the root of mandrake and a fern flower one hour ago"

Sabrina put her hand into handbag, pulled out broken vessel smeared with a strange brilliant liquid and said with noticeable concern "Omg, it is broken... The whole fern flower has outflow... I am dead now..." Cole asked "A fern flower? I thought it is just a fairytale and why is it liquid???"

Young witch immediately made a decision "You! Cole! Only you can save me now! Take my magic wand and run to the near pound. There you will see an old always almost fallen tree. Hit it with this magic wand three times and the tree will open. Take two vessels from that tree and collect the water from the surface of the pond in one of them. Hit the tree three times again, but with another end of the magic wand to close it.

Then pour the water from the pound on the first fern bush that you will see and it will blossom with stunningly beautiful flower. But you have to wait untill the flower will dry up and the fruit will appear. Take that fruit, make a hole in it with another end of the magic wand and fill the second vessel with fresh juice of that fruit. And then run as fast as you can, following blue signs at the trees. Do you see the signs?" 

But Cole didn't listen to her. Actually he was stunned by her beauty. The whole world was half-frozen while he was looking at Sabrina's face. The branch with green leaves was still in her hair and looked like a decoration while she was explaining him what to do. She noticed that something wrong with his attention and immediately understood why.

There was a potion of enthusiasm (love potion) in her handbag, which also smash down during her falling down. So Cole probably was affected with it.

Sabrina shout some bad words to express her dissatisfaction and asked him again "Do you see the signs?" Cole answered in half-dreaming state "Nnn..ooo... I don..." Suddenly young witch waved the magic wand in Cole's direction. He broke out for one second, waved his head like being just awakened and started to look around because now some trees became marked with colored signs.

He said "N...nn... now I can see the signs!" Sabrina said "Ok, now take my magic wand and run!!!" Young man asked "Why can't you gather it by yourself?" She answered with relief because his question meant that he is still able to think "Because a fern flower can't be gathered by one person two times per year. Now hurry up bring it to me and meanwhile, I will bring my mother the root of mandrake."

Young witch sat down on her broom and flew away. To be continued...