Greenwitch Chapter Ten

[sistermagpie]

• It's somehow hilarious the way Merriman sends the Stantons off with the artist. I just can’t shake the idea that he’ll somehow wind up learning all about Ohio.


• I can see why the Drews might have pleasant memories of the quest where they might not have known everything going on, but they knew more than most.


• The Light has protected the houses around the Grey House. Other places will be...not easy. That's ominous!


• They fall into the lighted room like mice diving below-ground from a hunting owl.


• That sounds intense--so intense that Simon feels embarrassed and takes it out on Will.


• And he just makes Will laugh. Thanks for playing, Simon.


• The wink at Jane always cracks me up. The two of them totally have an understanding already, and Jane understands enough to know that she doesn't understand enough.


• Go Barney. What would we do without him to get alarmed at the idea of bedtime?


• Merriman at least has time before confronting the spirit of Wild Magic possessing the town to make everyone cocoa.


• Jane's more sensitive to the magic in the air, it seems.


• I wonder if they'll create an illusion that Will is in bed for when the Stantons come home. Surely they'd check him.


• Awww. The boys fall asleep after Simon predicts no one will be sleeping.


• Only three mugs on the tray. As if he wasn't planning on Will having any... (okay, Jane might have thought Will got his first).


• Good on Jane for starting to make snarky comments about being manipulated with magic.


• Merriman and Jane touch fingers in a bargain. That's sweet.


• This is one of my absolute favorite moments in Greenwitch, where Jane sees Merriman and Will leave, and tells herself that he…no they are of the light. And also that she recognizes Will by a trick of his walk she wouldn't have known she'd have recognized. She'll do something similar in SotT.


• Jane thinks Merriman might even be causing all the shadows moving in the darkness, and the ghosts and the buzzing. You can't ever really trust these guys.


• Jane's reluctant to believe Will is supernatural, because she's already come to take comfort in his cheerful round face, blue-grey eyes and straight mouse brown hair.


• Later his face will be described as rather solemn, I think by her. But then, he's making a point of being cheerful this trip, at least with the Drews.


• Whoa. Poor Jane staying awake for this. The boys are snug in bed and she's watching a massacre from her bedroom window.