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Lya Pointa Cathedral was, simultaneously, the best and worst possible place for a party. It was rundown. It was grimy. It smelled faintly of garbage. But the party in question was a Halloween party, and no place was creepier or more Halloweeny. Most of the lingering odors and traces of real demonic possession had been driven away by the psychic purification of the Lavalamp-Ja family.
Lucinda Lavalamp was the more party-minded of the family, but she had gone all out on the planning on this party. She had personally psychic-hand-sewn all of her family's costumes, and had spent hours working on the party's ambient soundtrack. Her son, Armin, had prepared all of the refreshments himself--ghoulish green crackers, cocktail weenie "maggots," melon "eyeballs," and several bowls of candy alongside a few handmade and hand-shaped pumpkin-shaped truffles. Armin had come up with every gruesome treat possible, right down to the red velvet skeleton-shaped cake. His sister Ofelia had put her most devious designs into the decorations, with flapping bats and dangling spiderwebs and drifting ghosts made of real (but un-undead) ectoplasm, conjured up by her psychic powers. The littlest of them, Minty, had been sent off to have a sleepover with her friends while the big kids partied all night.
Alek was not quite as social as his family members, but for the sake of appearances, he was out, dressed in a farmer's outfit that contrasted with his stern appearance and prescription sunglasses. "Have any guests arrived yet?" he asked Lucinda. Out in the main dance area, where spooky lights flashed in time with the pulsing music, Armin and Ofelia mulled around putting the finishing touches on the decorations and arrangement of the treats.
"Not yet," Lucinda said. "But I've invited so many people! And told them to invite their friends! We should have a big crowd tonight!"
Alek shuddered at the thought.