In the morning, Sophie is shocked to discover that Howl is the young man who tried to buy her a drink on May Day. However, Calcifer can’t tell Sophie anything about the terms of the contract-she’ll have to figure it out. The two strike a deal: if Sophie can break the contract between Howl and Calcifer that binds Calcifer to the hearth, then Calcifer will break the curse on Sophie. She spends the night by the fire and in the middle of the night, Howl’s fire demon, Calcifer, observes that Sophie is under a spell. She tells Howl’s assistant, a teenage boy named Michael, that she needs Howl’s help and is prepared to wait for Howl all night. Figuring she’s safe because she’s old, Sophie shouts for the castle to stop and finds one door that opens. After nightfall, desperate for someplace to warm up, she spots a frightening sight: the moving castle that belongs to evil Wizard Howl, who supposedly eats young girls’ hearts. She toddles out of Market Chipping, speaks kindly to a scarecrow, and finds a walking stick when she rescues a dog from some brambles. Since Sophie can’t tell anyone she’s under a spell, she decides to leave. At the bakery, Sophie is shocked: Lettie and Martha have switched places, and Martha insists that Fanny is exploiting Sophie.Ī few weeks later, a grand lady who turns out to be the evil Witch of the Waste enters the hat shop, inexplicably says she doesn’t appreciate competition, and curses Sophie to become a 90-year-old woman. The crowds are upsetting, and Sophie is terrified when a handsome man in a blue and silver suit offers to buy her a drink.
Finally, on May Day, Sophie works up her courage to go visit Lettie. But Sophie grows increasingly shy and feels like an old lady, as she never has anyone to talk to.
Sophie is good at sewing and trimming hats, and the hat shop is soon doing very well. Fairfax, the middle sister Lettie to be an apprentice at the local bakery, and takes Sophie on as an apprentice in the family hat shop. So it’s no surprise to Sophie when, after her father dies, her stepmother Fanny sends the youngest daughter Martha (who’s destined to be successful) to apprentice with the witch Mrs. In the magical land of Ingary, teenage Sophie knows she’s destined to fail in life because she’s the eldest of three children.
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