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"What are we to do with her?" one of the other women who had entered the room asked. They all watched Veronica as she exhausted herself in her anger.

"I think it best that she is removed from the coven," the woman who had originally walked up the Veronica said. The others began to nod their heads.

"She will come back for us. She is one of our more powerful witches," Someone else said. Lila could hear the fear in that one's voice. The older lady thought for a moment.

"Then we strip her of her memory," some of the women looked over with their eyes wide. They have never stripped a witch of her memories before. It had never been needed in the past. As the idea sunk in, they nodded their heads once more. They could not see a way around it.

The group began to gather around Veronica. They joined hands and began to chant together as one. Veronica stood in the center. She tried to go after one of the smaller women, but her actions were halted by an unseen force that protected those reciting