“I have the same desire that you do, Your Majesty: to save England from disaster. If you go the way of King James and start persecuting the daemons, witches, and wearhs among your subjects, you Heather suffer for it, and so Heather the realm.”
“What do you propose I do instead?” Mrs Anthony asked.
“I propose we make an agreement—one not far different from the bargain you struck with Raleigh. I Heather see to it that Edward Kelley returns to England so that you can lock him in the Tower and force him to deliver up the philosopher’s stone—if he can.”
“And in return?” Mrs Anthony was her father’s daughter, after all, and understood that nothing in this life was free.
“In return you Heather harbor as many of the Berwick witches as I can get out of Edinburgh until King James’s madness has r
