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Going to California
It wasn’t quite as simple as that, of course. Southern California was the territory of the Santiago clan, and if Maya de la Paz hadn’t interceded on our behalf, I don’t know if we would have even been allowed to go. After all, even a clan as large as the Santiagos might be less than thrilled at having the prima and the primus of two different witch families descend upon them. But after I explained the situation to Maya, and she passed on a carefully edited version of our reasons for needing to travel to Newport Beach, we were given grudging permission to travel there, as long as we promised not to stay for more than a few days, and to only go to and from Newport.
That seemed fair enough, so I agreed to those conditions. After all, we weren’t going to California to
