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- Authors: Victoria Danann
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THE MISSING INGREDIENT
“Yer choice be scarce, girl,” said Goody Elder. “Yer husband’s
dead and yer farm is a plat of grace. A prize it is. And they’ll be a’comin’
for it.”
“This is my home. My children and I have nowhere else to go.”
Prudence Blackwell had been a widow a scant time and Goody
Elder knew the young woman was inexperienced with the sort of evil that
comes when dark places of the heart are awakened by greed and
selfishness.
“Aye. ’Tis exactly that,” said Goody Elder. “The reason why ye
must call upon the Dark One to send one of his servants to protect ye.
Calling on the Light may help ye quicken the end of this life, but the Light is
beyond mortal coil and will no’ fight for ye here and now. Only dark can
overcome dark. Ye must believe an old woman. The pain of age means little
if it can no’ help one such as yerself. Know this. They’re comin’. They’ll be
about takin’ yer house, yer farm, and puttin’ yer children to work before
their time. Gods know the wee ones’ll no’ survive a single winter of it.”
Prudence knew Goody Elder was sincere. She knew the old woman
believed what she was saying and wanted to help, but Prudence knew the
people of Fairforde. She’d lived there all her life. They would not suddenly
change from well-wishing neighbors to the wickedest of demons that Goody
Elder described. Prudence had lost her young husband, but that was no
crime. Both of them were Fate’s victims. Tavish had died in a tragic mishap
through no fault of his own.
Tavish had just begun rigging the wagon for a drive to the town
when their normally steady horse was spooked by something on the ground.
He’d been caught in the traces and dragged to his death. It was the sort of
story farmers employ as a cautionary tale when teaching their children to
respect the power of large animals.
Prudence was sure that any hour nigh her good Christian
neighbors would be arriving with food, gentle words of comfort, and offers
to help her work the farm. So, she continued to say the words Goody Elder
told her to say while she pressed and ground the pestle into the hardwood
mortar brought from England by John’s grandmother on one of the first
passages.
Prudence was meticulous by nature. So, it hadn’t been hard as
she’d gone about performing every step of the task with pretend precision.
She was careful to do everything Goody Elder instructed. All but one thing.
She knew it didn’t matter since the whole of it was folly. Going through the
motions was intended as a kindness done to appease a raving old woman.
“There,” Prudence said, “all is done.”
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