Chapter Eight
“WHAT ARE YOU doing?” Melina asked as she entered the kitchen and saw Destiny sitting there, stringing twine through the holes of each of the hag stones.
Destiny glanced up at her sister as she tied the ends of one of the pieces of twine together. As soon as Destiny arrived back home, she rummaged through her mother’s craft basket for what she needed to finish preparing the stones for Meeko. With a cup of hot tea in front of her, she set about the task of thwarting Morava. The ejjeljaro would be pissed, for sure, but the little boy would be safe, and to Destiny, that’s all that mattered. “I went to see Cyrena today. She gave me these hag stones and told me to hang them at the head of Meeko’s bed.”
“Cyrena? That crazy old lady who runs the herbal shop on the edge of town? W
