In the midst of all the worry and the search for Aaron, I hadn’t thought about the witches. And why should I have? I hadn’t made contact with them in a while.But the more I thought about it after Darius suggested we talk to them, the more I believed it was possible for them to have taken Aaron. After all, it was all tied to how Janet, their leader, had died. And I would be naïve to believe that they had completely forgiven me for the death of Janet.“Let’s go meet the witches,” I said to Darius, realizing just how empty I sounded.“We’ll find him, Zara. I promise,” Darius assured me, but the last thing I felt at the moment was hope.“Don’t promise things you’re not sure of, Darius. It’s only going to breed animosity if we don’t find him,” I told him as we walked back toward the woods.But as we got closer to George’s house, I stopped at the first house on the street and turned to Darius as I said, “Since we’re here, why don’t we just check the house just in case?”I could see the urg
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