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"Excuse an"

"Why can’t you understand? I was deeply sleeping I had a nighthtmare"

A muscle twitched in his cheek Hair wild, ar the ridiculous robe, he was both ireat face Not too pretty Classical,chin line, solid, defined cheekbones, fine, full ht, aristocratic nose Not sreen eyes set beneath a broad brow, rich dark hair He was a natural athlete, thus in good shape no h, they were in the cool autumn of October in Massachusetts, they had just come from a week in the Florida Keys, and he was solidly bronzed and sleek, and everaway from hiers feather down her back "All right, Megan, I’ine it was the fireside tales," she o on

Wrong thing to say "You’re fro that sounded like a snort "You’re the one with fahtened by stories about Salem?"

"They were different stories, not really about Salem, and certainly not in the historical sense," she said

"Oh, right, let’s see, All Hallow’s Eve is corows, that feeds on the ats to the places where an, consider history, and that would be alht," she said stiffly

"Ah, but then, a fulland thetoday who believe in the dark powers, who raves, and set dark winds of evil free to haunt the world"

She sat up, suddenly feeling defensive "Finn, contemporary Salem is a lovely place peopled by those who scoff at witchcraft, and those who believe in their pursuit of Wicca as a real religion, those who have darling shops and reat restaurants and couldn’t really care less And yes, sadly, the victims of the persecution here were surely innocent of the crimes attributed to them, but do you knohat? There alere--and perhaps still are--those who believed in witchcraft, or not witchcraft, Sataniss in their belief Damn, Finn--think about it! Are there still bad people out there? Wow Yeah, I think so So I listened to stories about the evil in men’s hearts, in their beliefs in the powers of darkness and things that go buht, and I had a bad dreaivable"

He laid back down, fingers laced behind his head "And you have a cousin who operates a witchcraft shop"

"There’s nothing evil about Morwenna"

"I didn’t say there was"

"It isn’t illegal to be a Wiccan now It was illegal to practice any forht"