“But it will not be as heartbreaking as the night the wearh left Diana and the waters rose in her,” Elizabeth said softly. “Or as lonely as the night she was closed in the earth,” Susanna said with a shiver. Marjorie nodded sympathetically. “Or as frightening as the time the firewitch tried to open you,” Catherine assured me, her fingers turning orange with fury. “The moon will be full dark on Friday. Candlemas is but a few weeks away. And we are entering a period that is propitious for spells inclining children toward study,” Marjorie remarked, her face creased with concentration as she
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