A New Darkness
“25 The Shaiksa Assassin I sighed and decided to tell Jenny the truth—or at least as much as she needed to know.
“For a time Alice lived with John Gregory and me at Chipenden. But although we fought the dark together, she’d received two years’ training in witchcraft from her mother, Bony Lizzie—she’s dead now, but she was a powerful Pendle witch who specialized in bone magic.”
“Bony Lizzie once passed through Grimsargh,” Jenny told me. “It was before I was even born, but people still talk about ...it. They locked their doors and drew their curtains and refused to answer when she knocked. But it did them no good. A child went missing and was never seen again. And there were five dead cats floating in the local pond, each with its neck broken. Later that year the crops failed—all of them.”
I nodded. “That sounds like Lizzie’s doing. Anyway, my master never trusted Alice; at the time, that made me angry, because I thought she was my friend. But eventually he was proved right.MoreLess
“For a time Alice lived with John Gregory and me at Chipenden. But although we fought the dark together, she’d received two years’ training in witchcraft from her mother, Bony Lizzie—she’s dead now, but she was a powerful Pendle witch who specialized in bone magic.”
“Bony Lizzie once passed through Grimsargh,” Jenny told me. “It was before I was even born, but people still talk about ...it. They locked their doors and drew their curtains and refused to answer when she knocked. But it did them no good. A child went missing and was never seen again. And there were five dead cats floating in the local pond, each with its neck broken. Later that year the crops failed—all of them.”
I nodded. “That sounds like Lizzie’s doing. Anyway, my master never trusted Alice; at the time, that made me angry, because I thought she was my friend. But eventually he was proved right.MoreLess
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