Bewitched
She did not need to raise her voice to silence the air.
The wardens began to speak, but she dismissed them with calm authority. When her gaze fell on me, I felt both exposed and weighed. Her questions followed: where we were from, what court, why we carried what we carried. I tried to speak, haltingly at first, my lies scraping against my throat. Flynn tried to shield me, but truth pressed outward until it nearly tore free.
And then she held it in her hands—the book. That cursed book. Lifted from my bag, its pages thick with forbidden words, its very existence a crime. Witches. Always witches.
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