Thinking about me? How kind of you. I return the favor often. If Viviana's cackle wasn't so annoying it might have reminded me of GreatGram and her own devolutions at times into crazy-ass old lady with a screw loose. Would never, ever, in a million years tell my great-grandmother so on pain of death, dismemberment and likely banishment from Creation in blue flames and fury.

Nor would the old sorceress ever know I compared her to the very woman she hated, who sparked this ...