Gabe snickered. "I bet if your mom found out, she'd probably have a fit!" He could just imagine the woman going around yelling for Pen, telling her to remove all apples and pieces of laurel in the house, or else she was grounded. It was a very amusing image, and Gabe couldn't help but laugh.
"I bet. Of course, I'm sure there are others over in Europe, just as abundant, since witch-trials started over there. He remembered learning in a history class once that witch hunts began in Europe in the early 1400's, and mentioned it. "I mean, that's two hundred years of mass murdering more than what happened here." A joke came to mind and he couldn't stop himself from saying it. "They're gonna need a lotta brooms over there!"