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Nikki frowned and said, “Wait! Your body is silver. How can
that be?”
“Because the Healing Witch saved me and turned me into the
famous Silver Skeleton of Celestria,” Wishbone explained with
a cynical tone in his voice.
“What’s Celestria, Mister Wishbone?” Jack wanted to know.
“Celestria is the Realm of Spirits, where I live now, with my
friends. It’s a cemetery in Creepy Hollow.” Wishbone cleared
his throat with a metallic-sounding cough. “You see, in Creepy
Hollow the spirits of the dead can live side-by-side with the
living.”
“Awesome!” Jack exclaimed.
“Wicked!” Nikki said, clapping her hands. “Okay, but now
you’re a wind chime. So how did that happen?”
“Well, let me tell you, and I’ll try to make it as short a story as I
can,” said Wishbone. “It all begins with a Goblin named
Hobart. Hobart was just another cute, little goblin who had
fallen on hard times. He lost his job and his home and had no
luck at all. So one day he went to visit The Trinity of
Wishmothers and begged them for help. Taking pity upon him,
the Wishmothers gave him a test in the form of three wishes.
He was supposed to use the three wishes to help others, which
in turn would help him and bring him good luck. But Hobart
was greedy and he used the three wishes for selfish reasons. He
wished for wealth and power and fame, so he failed the test. As
punishment for wrongly using his three wishes, the
Wishmothers transformed him into the mean and ugly
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