Chapter 120

When Lucinda returned to her camp an hour later, she wondered if anyone had actually seen the fireball, or if they had only heard about it. The other witches were camping under the hidden white sleet, miles away from their original location, as they had all scattered themselves in order to avoid being discovered by the vampires who had cast a spell to track them down with the help of Darwin, who had dark magic within him.

However, the sound of the explosion and the shaking of the mountain had no doubt woken them from their deep sleep within their underground shelters, with the exception, of course, of the guards who kept watch over their area. She hoped beyond confidence that the appointed guards had not panicked. Lucinda, on the other hand, had been wide awake when the fire flashed across the sky above her. Whenever she went away from camp in search of herbs or foraged for food, she made it a point to spend half of the night staring up at the night sky to relax. Yet she knew those m