“You killed a witch—and you’re now marked by a witch. It will not be the usual sort of wound.” Mort’s eyes narrowed. “You understand that you may have just landed yourself in a heap of trouble.” Celaena groaned. “Baba Yellowlegs was a leader—a queen to her clan,” Mort went on. “When they destroyed the Crochan family, they joined with the Blackbeaks and the Bluebloods in the Ironteeth Alliance. They still honor those oaths.” “But I thought all the witches were gone—scattered to the winds.” “Gone? The Crochans and those who followed them have been in hiding for generations. But the clans in the
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