“I’m just too tired today to conjure up a glass of wine, would you mind doing it for me?” Asked Susan of her friend Stephanie.

“You’re always too tired for conjuring,” retorted Stephanie as she flicked her wrist, causing a glass of wine to appear next to Susan. “Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you conjure anything at all.”

“Yes you have. You totally have!” Susan fired back. “See these boots? I transmogrified them from an old tree stump.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Just last week! Only, it take so much out of me every time I cast a spell. I should maybe look into taking some vitamins or something. It may be a blood sugar thing,” explained Susan as she sipped her wine.

Susan Peters was the only non-magical person in all of Witchton, having bought a home there by mistake. She lived in terror that the community of witches would find out she was an ordinary mortal, especially after befriending her neighbors and hearing the awful things they had to say about non magical people. It soon became her lot to learn how to lie very convincingly.

“Susan! Why don’t you come join us? We’re going down to the river to enchant ourselves a picnic!”

“Oh, I’d love too but I brewed up a late breakfast this morning!”

“Susan! We’re having a little coven gathering at Mickey’s house tonight to talk with some old friends on the other side, join us!”

“Oh, you know I’d love to but there’s a really interesting spell I’ve been wanting to cast on my cat to make him talk. It’s really complicated, I think it’ll take me all night.”

“Susan! We’re having a quiet night in at Sam’s with movies and popcorn, will we see you there?”

“Oh, I’d love to! But I’m just backed up to my ears with so many magic things tonight. Like, soooooooo many spells I’ve got to cast.”

And so Susan got a reputation for being lazy and antisocial.

“There goes Lazy Susan,” Eudora Feldman said to Elmira Goff, “too damn lazy to fly a broom so here she comes through in her minivan.”

Everywhere she went, the folks of Witchton would marvel at how either strong or lazy Susan was to so often do things with magick. Little did they know Susan did actually have a magical power: the ability to lie her way out of anything.