The English Coast, 1794  

‘I dream of people, Mother, ’9 year old Esther said, ’and sometimes when I wake they speak to me, in my head.  ’ Mathilda wiped her hands on her apron, her heart beating frantically.    

So it has happened, she thought, one of my daughters has inherited my gift, the one thing I have tried to keep hidden all my life.    

‘What do they say to you, dear one?  ’Mathilda asked as calmly as possible, terrified at the thought that Tobias, her husband, would find out.  He was a very religious man and to him this would reek of witchcraft.    

She shuddered at the word.  Even now Tobias was out with    Magnus, the most feared witchfinder in all the land.  If they we...

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