Despite agreeing to Thaddea's plans, it was with a heavily weighted heart I boarded the ship to London, accompanying the griping, sullen Auburdeen who her mother agreed to send to England for her own protection. Though Olive hadn't threatened Thaddea's children directly, we both knew the woman's decline into madness could lead her to attack anyone she saw as a threat. And if Thaddea was to take her place as leader of the coven, Auburdeen's safety was paramount to succession.
I will not recount here the time that passed in the Old World with Burdie, as she has her own tale told elsewhere. Needless to say, my hot-tempered and brightly shining darling did what she did best the moment she arrived in Jolly Old England-found trouble and dove head first into it.
I struggled the entire time, bac
