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Nathan chose to walk to the flat where the family was staying while here in New York, rather than take a cab or a streetcar. He knew he needed to clear his head before he faced his brother Jeremiah — Jeremiah, whose eyes saw far too much.
The meeting with Hannah McAllister had, of course, not been by mere accident. Although Nathan did not have Jeremiah’s talent for bending magic to his will, of shifting it and changing it in a way no one else could, or their brother Samuel’s gift of instantly transporting himself from place to place, Nathan’s inborn talent for sensing the presence of witches and warlocks at a far greater distance than their usual sense for such things had come in handy in this case. As soon as the McAllister clan had disembarked from their steamer, he’d known that a la
