“I met a trapper entering the foothills,” Dru continued. “He told me to avoid the easy path, because Magiree watches that way up mountain. He showed me a hard but hidden trail instead.”
“She’d be a hundred years old,” Cryton said.
“Well, witches can get really old. Like Great Grandaunt.”
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