Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble

by Amie McNee

I was trying so hard to do what I was meant to do, but no amount of compliance or obedience was working.

Why did the witches make witchcraft look so appealing? Called upon by the King, books to read, men who listened to you, comfortable dresses.

“You bleed on the full moon.” Zita sounded impressed. “You must come with us: a woman’s bleed makes her potent and powerful.” “Nay. It makes us weak. We bleed and we have not even been wounded.” I had heard a brother say that before. “And yet we never die,” Hildy said matter-of-factly. I frowned.

“I think you are a woman of power and intuition, Your Majesty.” “Does that make me a witch?” “Only if it gets in a man’s way.”

they will make you betray one another, they will make you hate one another, they will make you kill one another. It’s easier that way. They don’t need to wipe us out if we wipe out one another.”