"You think this is a game? You think my work with Haspan was for fun?"

Her voice cracked with pure fury.

"No. He was a tool. A weapon. A way to cleanse this earth of every opposition before we take our rightful rule!"

The witches kept their heads low.

She roared, "Do you THINK I was PLAYING?"

Silence.

The leader's rage pulsed like hot air.

"I will kill every witch in RuthValis," she said, voice low and deadly.

"Slowly. Dearly. Their screams will sweeten my sleep."

She paced, ...