Melvina shuddered as she felt Anthony tap her on the arm three times, hurriedly, as if in fear.

She had been lost while trying to process why her son's essence was cold, and so must have looked still to them all.

She looked at him, and then the others, who were staring at her apprehensively.

She noticed that Esther was back with a big brown book in her hand which smelt of dust and wood. The witch was looking at her two, her eyebrows raised as if she couldn't understand the ...