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2024-10-29 19:42:56IZZY POV
“Witchcraft?” I couldn’t help it. I started to giggle. “What is this? High school? There’s no such thing.”
The silence of everyone else made me stop laughing. “Wait. Is there? Witchcraft is real?”
Mom gave me a sad smile. “I really did you a disservice keeping you with the humans as long as I did,” she acknowledged. “Yes. Witchcraft is very real, very dangerous and very illegal. It is punishable by death.”
I felt a chill in my stomach. “Death?” I asked in a tiny voice.
“There’s nothing to worry about,” a fierce voice said behind me. Lucy slipped up and put her arm around me. “We all know you’re not a witch. And all we have to do is prove it.”
“Umm, doesn’t the accuser have to prove that I’m a witch, not
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