Salem Bewitched by Theresa Sneed

Author:Theresa Sneed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Salem 1692
Publisher: Author Theresa Sneed
Published: 2022-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Awakening

In the deep recesses of my mind, a pounding started, faint at first, and then it grew to a voluminous distortion. It jarred me awake, and I sat upright. “What?” I glanced around, not recognizing my surroundings at first. “Oh, oh yeah,” I said, with a yawn. “This is Zebulon and Sarah’s house.” After yesterday’s trials, and with the circle girls triumphantly stalking the streets, I had come straight over here seeking refuge.

The pounding continued. I gathered a robe around me and hurried out of the bedchamber. Sarah stood by a front window looking out.

“What’s going on?” I asked her.

She looked at me oddly. “We do not know. Zebulon has gone to read the placard.” Gesturing for me to sit, she sat on the bench by the window. “Pray tell about your gray hair. Zebulon mentioned the witch accusation.”

“Yes,” I said, running my fingers through my disheveled hair. I had taken the stage makeup off the night before, and I must have looked a mess. I knew the truth was in order, well, not all the truth. “I’m trying to not be seen by the circle girls, and others, who think me a witch.”

She nodded. “Tis an elaborate disguise, Elizabeth.” She smiled. “But a good one. I had to look twice before I recognized you.”

“I am relieved that it has worked so far.” And scared to death that my luck will run out.

“You are safe here, but just in case,” she said, studying my hair. “May I?” Sarah picked up a brush and the hair pins I had taken out the night before.

“Yes, please do.”

Her touch was gentler than Gabriella’s. I hardly felt the knots being worked out, as she brushed through the tangles, and then styled it on top of my head. She held a small piece of flattened copper in her hand. Though intended as reflective, my image in it was quite blurry and hard to make out, but my hair, I’m sure was adequate. I thanked her and then excused myself.

I went into the bedchamber and got back into yesterday’s clothes, and then as carefully as I could, I reapplied the makeup. Of course, I cheated a bit and used a tiny mirror from the future that I had hidden in the bag. Returning to the front room, I joined Sarah in the kitchen. She still seemed a bit tired. The door opened, and Zebulon rushed in, his face perplexed and worried.

“What is wrong?” Sarah asked.

“They’ve gone and done it,” Zebulon said gravely. He placed a folded paper on the table and spread it out.

Bess read quickly through the announcement.

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