[SECOND SALEM CHURCH, BACKYARD-DAY]

James emerges from the church and rings a large dinner bell.

[SECOND SALEM CHURCH, MAIN HALL-DAY]

Chi continues playing hopscotch. Shade pauses, looking past her and out toward the door.

Chi "... Witch number three, gonna watch her burn, Witch number four, flogging take a turn"

young children stream into the church.

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Brown soup is being ladled out to the children, who jostle each other to get near the front of the line. Sera, wearing an apron and looking on approvingly, squeezes through the little crowd.

Sera "Collect your leaflets before you get food, children"

Several of the children turn toward James, who waits primly, handing out campaign leaflets

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Sera and Shade ladle out soup, Shade looking intently into every face.

A boy with a birthmark on his face reaches the front of the line. Shade stops her work and stares at him. Sera reaches out to touch the boy's face.

Boy "Is it a witch's mark, ma'am?"

Sera "No. He's okay"

The boy takes his soup and leaves. Shade stares after him as they continue to serve.

[BUSY STREET ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE-AFTERNOON]

{CLOSE ON A BILLYWIG}

A small blue creature with helicopter-like wings on its head- flying high above the street.

Yin and Rose walk along the street, Yin carrying the case.

Yin (on the verge of tears) "I can't BELIEVE you didn't Obliviate that man! If there's an inquiry, I'm finished!"

Rose "So why would you be finished? I'm the one that's-"

Yin "I'm not supposed to go near the Second Salemers!"

The Billywig zooms over their heads. Rose spins, horrified, watching it.

Yin "What was that?"

Rose "Er- moth, I think. Big moth"

Yin finds this explanation dubious. They round a corner to find a crowd gathered in front of a crumbling building. People are shouting, others are hurriedly evacuating the building. A policeman is standing at the center of the crowd, being harassed by disgruntled tenement dwellers.

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Rose and Yin move around the outskirts of the crowd. At the back, a tipsy hobo is trying to attract the policeman's attention.

Policeman "Hey... Hey- quiet down- I'm trying to get a statement..."

Housewife "... I'm telling you it's a gas explosion again, I ain't taking the kids back up there until it's safe"

Policeman "Sorry, ma'am- There ain't no smell of gas"

Hobo (drunk) "It wasn't gas- hey, Officer, I seen it!- It wuzza- a gigantic- a huge hippopotto-"

Yin is looking up at the ruined building and misses Rose sliding her wand from her sleeve and pointing it at the hobo

Hobo "-gas. It was gas"

The others in the crowd around him agree

Crowd "Gas... It was gas!"

Yin again catches sight of the Billywig. Taking advantage of this distraction, Rose runs up the metal steps and inside the ruined tenement building.