"Your fireplace?" he thought, "This brat and his mother won't kick me out of this house!" She remembered how many houses she had been kicked out of. She had lived in three other houses before this one, and it had taken her this long to find them. Nowadays witches are not welcomed very kindly in most cities, and when she was younger, around the time of the Salem witch trials, it was even harder to find a safe place to stay let alone a person desirable.