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because the mating of a witch and a demon produces a child of incredible power.
She was the one who cast the original curse on the Crofts, you know. Once a month for seven days straight, all the males in that family turn into monsters at night. Demons, werewolves, every type of goblin and ghoul. Even a giant, carnivorous plant in one case!
the Croft bloodline is cursed for good.”
your mother. She’d gone to the Crofts’ church to try to break Megaera’s spell.
but a caster’s final spell before death can’t be reversed.”
you were right about how all the Blackthorn women die by accident, clever girl. Dark magic always exacts a price. When Megaera put that blood curse on the Crofts, it took a little something from her lineage, too.
there are many benefits to our loyalty. For one thing, we don’t die. Well, our human forms die, but after seven days, we return in animal form to wait until the master is strong enough to rise again, and we’ll be restored to our former glory.” I think of the black clouds of ravens always circling the skies of Solstice. I think of the red fox, white cat, and blue morpho butterfly, all so strangely intelligent. I think of all the empty Blackthorn graves at Pinecrest, and my grandmother’s strangely well-preserved, disappearing corpse, and how Bea dreamt of being a big black dog. Is that what
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The master is almost ready. We’ve been very diligent in our sacrificial offerings over the generations. His power has almost peaked. Then he’ll rise and claim his queen to rule beside him.”
“Can you guess who that might be? I’ll give you a hint, darling: it’s a certain little girl who looks younger than she is.”
“Dimensional travel spells, time manipulation spells, memory erasure spells that make people forget someone ever existed … it’s all within your reach, darling. Even death itself doesn’t have dominion over you. I can’t wait to teach you everything. There’s so much you need to learn.”
