Chéri kept petting the cat, but didn’t dare go too far with it.

Chéri seemed relieved at the perspective of not having to see the poor witch end up losing and living unhappily. Apparently he cared more for her than for the children.

Chéri shared “it must not be easy to build such a place and then have two pests coming over and eating your stuff off the walls,” commented, with a certain disappointment. Chéri shook his head.

“I think they should do something to fix what they have done to the witch’s house. Most children are stupid, no one needs to build an entire house made of gingerbread to have them over, so she must have built it for some other reason. I think they should work to fix it. And because she is fair, she will feed them during their work time. Does that make sense.”