Prompt Word: Bolt

Minervie and Chip 5

“Okay Chip, do you remember what is the Tipua?”

“A forest spirit?”

Minervie harumphed, Chip needs to learn this stuff, “Not quite, it is a shape-shift spirit. Like the Mandrake, you have to hold very tight, and don’t be surprised when it changes. Are you ready?”

Chip reached out to the thing that looked like a bonzai tree, and grabbed its trunk, “Ouch, it bit me,” Chip cried. The Tipua bolted off, now looking a bit like a tanuki.

Chip’s finger was bleeding, Minervie picked him up before he started blubbering. As she walked him back home, she chanted her little chant and his wound healed.

“So Chip, are you calm now?”

“Yes, gramma.”

“What happened?”

“It bit me,” Chip complained.

“No, you didn’t hold it tightly enough, so it was able to push your hand off. You were struck by it changing size.”

“But,” seeing Minervie’s face, Chip shut his mouth, remembering that arguing wouldn’t help.

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