Snapdragon

Snap and Jacks take the baby possums into the woods to set them free. Snap asks if she can still help with Jacks’s tasks after the possums are gone, and Jacks says yes. When Snap reaches into the crate to get the last baby possum out, she sees the blue, glowing ghost of the deceased mother possum, who nudges her baby out of the crate. 

Jacks can tell that Snap sees the mother and says that the mother’s spirit arrived with the babies. She says spirits of mother animals sometimes watch their babies. Snap, astounded, lobs a flurry of questions at Jacks about whether she really is a witch and whether other mythological creatures exist. Jacks says being a witch is lonely and difficult. Snap says that witches become scapegoats for people’s fear just because they seem different and don’t fit into societal standards. Snap still wants to be Jacks’s apprentice. Jacks warns her not everyone has magic, and the training has to be done a certain way, but she agrees.

Snap runs to Lulu’s house to tell her about magic and her apprenticeship with Jacks. At first, Lulu thinks Snap is teasing her, but Snap tells her more details: When Snap asked Jacks if she could have a broom and wand, Jacks said that magic was about will and focus, not props.