Six girls stood before the slowly swirling purplish vapor in Jessica’s attic and waited.

“So like, what do we do? Just walk into it?” Shannon asked.

“Not without testing it first,” Ranko said. “Get some junk or something and we’ll throw it into the cloud to make sure it doesn’t do something weird like turn into a spider.”

“Spider?!” Jessica exclaimed. “What spider? Where?!”

“There’s no spider, you goof. Ranko was just using that as an example,” Shannon said.

Jessica sighed in relief. “Oh good, ’cause I hate yucky bugs.”