Chapter 31

What proof do you have that she’s a witch? Only her clothes look strange,” came someone’s voice from behind. The head of the town turned, and so did Imani, feeling a spec of hope return to her that she wouldn’t die.

It was a male who appeared to be off her age or a bit older.

“Do you know this woman, Kade?” questioned the head with scrutinizing eyes.

The man nodded his head and said, “I think I saw her in the other town two weeks ago. I doubt she’s a witch.”

“She talks weirdly and her eyes look way too different for her not to be a witch!” the Head clicked his tongue and raised his eyebrows in question.

“May I check her before you burn her?” asked the man named Kade, and he came to stand in front of Imani, staring intently into her aqua colored eyes. Imani looked like she was about to burst into tears any moment from now.

“She doesn’t look like a witch to me and neither is her eye color that strange.”

But the Town Head was still not satisfie