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Welcome to send me to sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading the final four chapters of The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

As we settle in, four peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 13

With the perils of the cave of darkness left behind, with curling smoke, bankwished and driven far off,

The Shadow Witch was happy, and in her presence Prince Ember gave no thought for the moment to any further danger that might beset them.

Danger was not far distant.

In the spot that he had chosen, the Ash Goblin worked fast and diligently upon the snare with which he meant to entrap Prince Ember, hoping that he might be able to complete it before the Prince arrived.

He could plainly see the Elf's house from where he labored.

He believed the Prince to be still within its walls, and he was sure that none has yet had crossed its threshold.

With his twisted hands, he took from the long bag hidden beneath his cloak the evil Ash of which alone his snare could be made and sifted it carefully over the ground.

Meanwhile, he repeated the words of enchantment written in his book of craft, which he believed would make certain the capture of Prince Ember.

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