Chapter 23

Margaret held a perfumed handkerchief over her nose and mouth as she tiptoed over the bodies that were strewn across Cornwall.  Davina and Theo did the same. 

It was the year thirteen-hundred-forty-nine.   After doing a bit of scrying and a few magical spells, they determined that Louella’s crimes began during an outbreak of the black plague. Capitalizing on the pestilence that took almost half of the population, she spread the claim that the disease was the devil’s work brought on by the dark witches.  This was, in fact, truth, but it wasn’t something that was meant to become public knowledge and bring attention to the witch community.

With most of the witches taken by surprise when the vigilante groups hunted them down and burned or hanged them on the spot, few were left for Davina to have to deal with. Even so, she begged Margaret to join her; more for the moral support than anything else.  Margaret, like Theo, was a s