![]() So far he has been the Spook’s only success. ![]() His sixth apprentice, Brian Houghton, completed his five-year apprenticeship successfully and is now practicing his trade somewhere south of the County. Gregory is still annoyed that he wasted all that time training them. My master’s next three apprentices ran away because they found the job too difficult and scary. The creature’s horns pierced him under the ribs and speared his heart. Gregory’s second apprentice, Paul Preston, was attacked by a deadly goat boggart as he walked across a muddy field near Wheeton. It split Benjamin’s skull wide open and dashed out his brains on the grass. My master’s first apprentice, Benjamin Roberts, was struck dead by a stone chucker, a violent sort of boggart with six arms that throws missiles-sometimes even large boulders. They usually start by killing cattle but eventually prey upon people, ripping out their throats and draining their blood. For example, there’s an extremely dangerous type known as a ripper. Then it’s a spook’s job either to move them away or bind them in pits so that folk can get on with their lives. Often they do little damage and simply scare people. ![]() Two of my predecessors were slain by boggarts-troublesome entities that are mostly invisible but sometimes take on the shape of animals such as cats, rats, horses, and dogs. ![]() I’M Will Johnson, apprentice to John Gregory, the Chipenden Spook. ![]()
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