chapter 23
I’ve never encountered a transmutation curse as powerful or as complicated as this one,” Raúl explained a day later. They’d gathered in the church to discuss “Blackie,” who’d been taken to the infirmary after his collapse and was being cared for by Beatrice. “He’s not a Were. He isn’t even gifted. Someone very powerful turned that man into a horse. I can’t begin to fathom how long he’s been cursed.” Hettie had heard plenty of stories of witches and warlocks hexing people they didn’t like. The Division had outlawed such spells centuries ago and had burned or locked away all the texts about transmutation. Weres and other transfigurations were considered travesties against nature by most of the world’s sorcery communities. “How come no one noticed Blackie wasn’t supposed to be a horse befor
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