Giggling that annoying wheezy laugh, Alecto watched him turn slowly around, looking around as the spiders skittered around. "Not cower, you mistaken cowardice for obedience. Isn't that right, my lovelies?" Her voice cooed towards the darkness as the spiders stopped making noise all together. The shop fell into complete silence as Alecto chuckled to herself.
"Cursed?" Alecto glanced curiously up at Astrophel. "Is that what they're calling it now? Cursed." Scoffing, Alecto shook her head, and rose from her seat behind the counter. "Are you ashamed of what you did in the past that you pull some bollocks excuse out of your arse like that? Cursed." Moving away from the flame, Alecto tossed her black hair over her shoulder. Grabbing her wand, she made a large sweeping arc with it, as the candles around the shop instantly flickered with a flame. The light was still dim, casting eerie shadows over the walls, but it was enough to illuminate the shop. Spiders large and small went skittering into the shadows as webs lined the walls, some obviously with eggs sacs on them, others had large white cocoons on them about the size of a body. A few bones were spread out across the store, some looked like animal bones others like human remains. Cages, which also lined the walls, were empty, except for the occasional spider building a web within it. The inside of the shop looked like something out of a horror film, and the woman pulling the puppet strings stood in the middle of it all.
One particularly large spider, about the size of a cat, was resting on her shoulder. "Ideas, hm? We like ideas, don't we?" Tilting her head to the side, her cheek brushed against the top of the spider, as her hands laced behind her back and she gave Astrophel a rather innocent look. "What sort of ideas do you have?"