Not that anyone else noticed. I was positive they didn't. They all assumed she was long gone, that the woman they'd been waiting to interrogate had simply cracked her cauldron and no one was home at the moment. Or would be at any time in the future.

If only they knew. But I didn't tell them. Because.

Oh, come on. I'd think the "because" in this whole disaster would be glaringly obvious.

I was getting really good at pretending everything was okay, though, it ...