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Witch Wood

Free · 1 chapter · 1 scene · Gothic
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You are David Sempill, newly ordained minister of a parish that distrusts your youth and fears the black wood above the manse. Elder Caird wants sermons harder than mercy; a tenant has vanished after refusing to name a neighbor's secret rites; and on the road you meet Katrine Yester, the exiled laird's niece, who tells you to watch where the righteous man refuses to look. When drums sound from the wood that night, Katrine returns barehanded and ash-streaked: she followed Caird there, and he was not praying.

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  1. The Parish beside MelanudrigillWoodilee

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