To cast you need three things. Magic, a language and Hira. Magic lives over here.’ She held up one hand. ‘And the physical world lives over here.’ She held up the other. ‘They don’t speak the same language. Witches are the translators in the middle. We have to give magic a language to speak so it can transfer its energy to the physical world. We can’t just provide a language though, we have to give it meaning, belief. That’s where Hira comes in. It’s the force within yourself that imbues the language with power.’
