"Witches didn't fear much, Miss Tick had said, but what
the powerful
ones were afraid of, even if they didn't talk about it, was what they
called 'going to the bad'. It was too easy to slip into careless little
cruelties because you had power and other people hadn't, too easy to
think other people didn't matter much, too easy to think that ideas
like right and wrong didn't apply to you. At the end of that road was
you dribbling and cackling to yourself all alone in a gingerbread
house, growing warts on your nose. Witches needed to know that other
witches were watching them." |