Night of shades
And all the while, the tree waited for the signal from the hill.
Atop this hill lived three women, and of course these women were witches. “Of course” because what else could they be, as they were three women living together without men’s company—always a suspicious action. Men must have lived there once, though no one could remember their names, for these women were grandmother and mother and daughter.
There were always a grandmother and mother and daughter, no matter how much time passed, always three but not always the same three. The daughter never seemed to be a child, though of course she must have been once.
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