CHAPTER TEN
The smell of curry and rice cooking filled the air. The kitchen had the same sunny yellow walls with multi-floral curtains gently blowing in the breeze from open windows Cat remembered from the last time she'd been there. She felt at home in the cottage. It was a safe oasis of warmth in advance of the oncoming storm, one that Cat desperately needed at that moment. The girls had struggled through the week in the city, each reading as much as they could to try to find answers, but they hadn't found the books to be overly useful. Cat thought that she understood more about magic in general, but she hadn't learned anything more about the witch at the dark heart of the evil that lay ahead of them. They'd continued to go out scouting and had each taken out a handful of dark souls. Th
