Maddie and I had a few errands to run this morning, and while we were out and about, we decided to drop by Our Best Friends. Maddie sniffed around outside, doing her usual thing of checking for unusual smells, then we headed in, only to be met by a bat-winged Hannah at the door.
“Trick or Treat,” insisted Hannah as we stepped inside.
“I think you’ve got that backwards,” I said. “We’re supposed to say ‘Trick or Treat.'”
“It’s my shop,” said Hannah, pressing her paw against my foot. “I’ll say ‘Trick or Treat’ whenever I want.”
“Cool wings,” said Maddie. “What’s happening?”
“Nothing much,” said Hannah. “Just hanging around. Get it? I’m a bat.”
Maddie rolled her eyes. “That’s silly. Say, what kind of Bat are you, Hannah? A bulldog bat? A fruit bat?”
“Pshaw,” said Hannah dismissively. “I’m a vampire bat. Blah!”
“Ooh,” said Maddie. “Like Lord Ruthven? That’s cool, we just read The Vampyre.”
Hannah shook her head. “No, more like Dracula,” she said. And then, in a Transylvanian accent, “‘Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make-‘”
“That’s a pretty good Bela Lugosi impression, Hannah,” said Maddie.
“Thanks, can you do any movie vampire impressions?”
“Maybe,” said Maddie.
“Oh, who?”
“See if you can guess,” said Maddie, rolling her eyes and wordlessly glaring at Hannah.
“Ooh, creepy,” said Hannah. “But I don’t know. Who is it?”
“Max Schreck as Count Orlock in Nosferatu.”
“Nose for achoo?” asked Hannah. “Like a sneeze or something?”
“Nosferatu,” said Maddie. “It’s a silent movie.”
“Oh,” said Hannah. “No wonder you didn’t say anything.”
“If you’ve got any Post-Its,” suggested Maddie, “I can show you my Jiang Shi impression. That’s a Chinese vampire.”
But Hannah was distracted, sniffing around Maddie’s leash for food. “Enough tricks,” said Hannah. “I know you’ve got treats hidden in here somewhere.”
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Bonus pic: “Can I have a bite of your cookie?”
