CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
For Kate, the hardest part of getting to Haxa the rune witch’s home was doing it without her cousins coming with her. If Ulf or Frig saw her leaving, they would undoubtedly want to come too, to try to help or simply to be there to support her. Kate suspected that this was something she had to do alone.
So she made her way out of Ishjemme quietly before going up into the surrounding hills. She could remember the path from her previous trip, even though it felt different here, like this. Just the thought of what she was going there to do made the hills seem more on edge, echoing with the threat of a storm.
Kate kept going. She needed to do this.
It wasn’t long before she made it to Haxa’s cabin. Kate paused, swallowing as she tried to fight back the sudden nerves that
