My use of the phrase sock puppet seemed to throw Jed for a loop, but only for a moment. “If Mel can’t get inside your head, she won’t have any other use for you. Lucky for you, woman’s not the type to accept defeat. She’s been trying to get in my head going on eleven years now. Most of the time, I shake her off. Doesn’t put her in the best mood, but as long as I keep my mouth shut about it, ’bout what she’s doing to everyone else, she lets me be.”
As I processed Jed’s words, I realized that I was talking to the one person in the entire coven who was able to insulate his emotions from Melissa’s influence. From that, I concluded two things: first, that even without the others in my head, I might be able to do the same; and second, if I wanted to figure out what was really going on in this c
