

DamnationThe day her husband died Annabel knew something was wrong; she woke that morning with that sinking feeling in her stomach. Cresil walked into the room, hed been out drinking most of the night. He'd acquired quite a reputation for herself; no one in the village would even talk to her anymore. She despised him but she wanted a child so badly that she stayed with him. Hed been abusing her for years; her body bore the scars of many drunken beatings, and after years of secret learning shed acquired some arcane knowledge from a witch that lived in the wood. She used the magics shed learned to stop her husband from hurting her anymDamnation