Pete and Doctor Travis sat together late into the night, discussing magic and medicine.
“I suppose what I don’t understand,” Travis said as he sipped cool cider from an enameled cup, “is that if you witches possess these amazing healing abilities, why you don’t share them with the rest of mankind?”
“We did at one time,” Pete responded, “but our High Council forbade it sometime in the fifteenth century.”
“But why … when you could obviously do so much good in the world?”
Pete snorted. “You’ve obviously never heard of the Spanish Inquisition.”
“Oh, that,” he said with a deep sigh. “But I thought that was just a way for the Church in Rome to confiscate the businesses and property of wealthy Moors and Jews in Europe?”
“It was, Pete said, “but they came after us with a vengeance because th
