As the conversation about grim fates swirled around her, blood drained from Jocelynn's face, and her body refused to move, shivering as she thought of her sister suffering at Owain's hands just because of the accusation of being a witch. At the time, Jocelynn hadn't understood how Owain, or perhaps any man of the frontier, would respond. After all, her parents had sheltered Ashlynn for more than twenty years, so the mark on her hip couldn't be that serious.
But she'd been naive then, and Owain had spent the past half year teaching her just how wrong she'd been. So when Captain Albyn said that the people of the frontier would sooner kill an innocent person than risk that the accusation was true, she absolutely believed him.
