Chapter 2
WHATEVER HAPPENED to the nice day?
Johanna left the markets with no idea what she was going to do about the promise she’d made to Loesie. She couldn’t just walk into the mayor’s office and tell him about the magic warning.
The mayor went to church and took the Shepherd’s teaching very seriously. A few weeks ago in church, the Shepherd Romulus had given a sermon that condemned magic in the strongest possible words. Johanna could still hear his voice. There are those who adhere to the dark crafts of old, from quacks who tell the people lies about treatments that do not work, and fortune-tellers who take your money for deceit and extortion, to those who try to do evil. They tell you they see things on the wind or in the wood. These are lies. At best, the dark crafts are a fallacy
