They stay in a little hut together for a bit until some unfortunate events break them apart.Īphra goes to live in the big house with the Guerdon family. She meets Long Lankin in these woods, he is a leper that is supposedly really creepy as well. Alphra escapes and has to live in the woods and forests. She learns the use of voodoo dolls to make people that harmed her to suffer, um, but she would take it a bit farther than the witches wanted.Īnyhoo, we all know the people of the village are going to come and put an end to the witches. She watched them practice healing for the folks but Aphra seemed to take a darker side. Aphra grew up loving her two moms so to speak. She was found by a couple of witches down by the river when she was a baby. The book starts out telling Aphra's tale. Well this wasn't a wee bit creepy or anything!
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