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Meredith Perenais’s Journal

June 26, 2009

I said the words today!

It’s been too long in coming, this. More than twenty years. So many spells and foolish potions. Witchcraft isn’t about herbs and livers. It’s taken me far too long to learn what I know. It’s taken me far too long to grow strong. The searching, the planning . . . The failures. Looking for the strength to try again. I never gave up, not for long. There is always a way, though. If a door can open one direction, it can open another. I’ve opened doors before that were closed to anyone else. I’ve brought back men from the edge of death. Though I’ve never brought anyone back before who had fully crossed.

I hope he still knows how much I love him. I gave him my blood for this, and so much more. And finally I said the words:

Make them rue the day they hurt you.

My strength yours as long as you can

stay with me and make them regret

the day they hurt the Pumpkin Man.