KATHY AND BEN TRIED to reason with Morgan all the way back to her beach house. The plan had been to put the chest back into wherever it had come from. The two had grown up under the shadow of Cora"s potential anger against the island. They didn"t want to do anything that would upset her. And the plan that Morgan was laying out for them would do more than upset her. It was going to infuriate the sea witch.
"This can"t possibly work, Morgan. You just don"t understand, you haven"t been on the island long enough to know–"
"Ben, I know more than you think, and I"ve lost more than you"ll ever know because of Cora. I"m perfectly aware of her anger, her fury, and her power. But I also know long ago she made a promise." She paused and looked at the two of them for emphasis. "Regardless of whether
