Witchrise
“‘Something dangerous? It’s too heavy just to contain a single book, however magickal.’ Kneeling before the locked casket, my fingers drumming restlessly on the damp wooden lid, I shrugged.
‘I doubt Mother would have sent me to dig up this box if what was inside could hurt us.’ I took a cloth and brushed the last stubborn smudge of dirt from the box. ‘But let’s see, shall we?’ We were downstairs in my father’s house, in the narrow, low-ceilinged room that had once been used by my aunt for weavin...g, but now had some purpose as a storeroom. It was far enough from my father’s study and the servants’ quarters to allow us some privacy, though we had to keep our voices down, for the window overlooked the old herb garden, its formal beds kept in good order while my aunt was alive, though now a mass of straggling and woody plants which nobody had cut back after the summer’s growth.
I looked around at their intent faces, trying to gauge the mood of our little band. Alejandro, standing above me, his eyes wary.MoreLess
‘I doubt Mother would have sent me to dig up this box if what was inside could hurt us.’ I took a cloth and brushed the last stubborn smudge of dirt from the box. ‘But let’s see, shall we?’ We were downstairs in my father’s house, in the narrow, low-ceilinged room that had once been used by my aunt for weavin...g, but now had some purpose as a storeroom. It was far enough from my father’s study and the servants’ quarters to allow us some privacy, though we had to keep our voices down, for the window overlooked the old herb garden, its formal beds kept in good order while my aunt was alive, though now a mass of straggling and woody plants which nobody had cut back after the summer’s growth.
I looked around at their intent faces, trying to gauge the mood of our little band. Alejandro, standing above me, his eyes wary.MoreLess
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