C13 THIRTEEN

So Gentle in His View

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Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

YOUR DAD IS wrong. Sometimes, it is too late.

The coven's magic weighed heavy in me, like eating a dinner that sat wrong in your stomach, but it did its job and kept me hidden from the Druids by masking my scent