Chapter Sixty
"Witch Trials"
Maddy is strung up by her wrists, a thin metal-looking wire attaching her hands to a tree branch. The wire has cut into her wrists so deeply blood pours down her arms. There’s a deep cut on her throat, made by some sharp object, as well as tree branches and stones driven into her body in various places. Torso, arms, legs, even the side of her neck…
Savannah cries out, “She’s not dead! Her heart’s still beating! Somebody, get her down!”
Hyacinth says through tears, “I can’t! She’s too high up and there are no f*cking branches!”
Savannah screeches, “The blood loss is killing her! We have to get her down so I can heal her!”
She sounds hysterical and so desperate it feels like her voice pulls at my very soul.
Everyone springs into motion at that, includin
