But something made her stand still and ponder. Slowly, she understood the fish devil’s final lesson. Though she was nearly the old Yenderil again, everybody knew what had happened, and everybody was afraid of her. Yenderil now realized that, like the fish devil, her strongest nature was to get what she wanted, even if that meant pulling others out of their natural stations, causing them distress. A peenie wally. An obeah man.
