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The witch.

His skin prickled beneath his fur. He had known only light in these wilds, and had come to it more wholly on the island, but where light shone, darkness often followed.

I remember, he said, distant as he turned everything else she said over in his heart, his mind, his soul. It troubled him down to the very core. They were both creatures saved from darkness. Why he plunge them both back into harms way again?

Of course, Everett knew the guilt his sister carried over her courtship with Lestan, how she saw herself as cursed for bearing a child before they’d wed. Is that why Lestan had sought out the witch? To break a curse that wasn’t there at all?

The beach is at least two days full travel away, far, was all he meant to say, when did he leave? he asked again, and have you slept at all since leaving the bay? Eaten, even? If you’re sick, you’re only going to make yourself worse.

You know this, Ophelia.