Chapter Six
Meikah turned and watched her mother stride towards her bedroom. Breena closed the door after one more glance at Meikah, fear remaining in her eyes. Meikah tried to convince herself she couldn’t have seen clearly. A single lantern hung above the stairs, one of the few bewitched flames in the house. There’d been more than enough light. A sound had her spinning to face the door to her sister’s room.
Ena remained in the doorway. “What did you do now?”
Answering wouldn’t change her sister’s accusatory tone so she didn’t bother. Stepping into her room, she closed the door, leaning against it to stare at the candle on her chest of drawers, the flame reflected in the mirror that hung on the wall above the chest. She crossed the room to stare into her brown eyes, the flicker of ligh
