The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher

Author:Susan Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

I walked home from the forge feeling alive, Jane, and hopeful, and I am minded to write to King James himself, in France, to tell him of what I have learnt, thus far! It feels such news. It puts blood on Dutch hands.

But a blacksmith’s word is not enough. He was not there, in the glen. He did not know the MacDonalds or live amongst them, and he did not see the murders with his own eyes.

I am a different man to the man who rode into Inverary, shivering and old. I wrote of my hatred for witch. I wrote scornful words, and damning ones, and did I not support her coming death? By flames? I am different, now. The thought of her death troubles me—I cannot lie, or pretend otherwise. Corrag speaks of goodness, largely, and beneath the knots and dirt and blood I see how delicate she is, how frail. She speaks, too, of her fondness for a man called Alasdair—the Chief’s second son, and a rogue of some standing (though not in her eyes). What a tiny, lovesick creature she becomes, when she mentions his name.

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