"My aunt is completely deaf," Evan explained to Andy as they climbed the stairs.
"Does that mean you can play your stereo as loud as you want?" Andy asked.
"I don't think Aunt Kathryn has a stereo," Evan said.
"That's too bad," Andy said, walking around Evan's room, pulling back the window curtains and looking down on Trigger, huddled unhappily in his pen.
"Is she really your great-aunt?" Andy asked. "She doesn't look very old."
"It's the black hair," Evan replied, setting the can of Monster Blood on the desk in the center of the room. "It makes her look young."
"Hey- look at all these old books on magic stuff?' Andy exclaimed. "I wonder why your aunt has all these."
She pulled one of the heavy, old volumes from the shelf and blew away a layer of dust from the top. "Maybe your aunt plans to come up here and cast a spell on you while you're sleeping, and turn you into a newt."
"Maybe," Evan replied, grinning. "What is a newt, anyway?"
Andy shrugged. "Some kind of lizard, I think." She flipped through the yellowed pagesof the old book. "I thought you said there was nothing to do here," she told Evan. "You could read all these cool books."
"Thrills and chills," Evan said sarcastically.