I frowned while looking around at the massive shelves. I kept the light low—after working under the moon, I didn’t want to be blinded. Should I really be looking into this? Nothing anyone had mentioned to me about the Handmaiden witches seemed to have anything to do with dark magic. The only example I’d seen, if it could even be called that, was Sabine’s manipulation of the minds around her. And transportation. Delila used transportation magic. She seemed…well, a bit weird, but no weirder than my Aunt Esme. And certainly not off the chain or violent like Sabine. After standing in the middle of the library for another minute or two, I decided it couldn’t hurt to look. I was just gathering ideas and certainly had no intention of taking over anyone’s mind. Thankfully, there were books in

