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to discover.  
    “I’ve enjoyed it as well, though I’m ready to have my castle back.”
    “Aye. I know ye are. How much longer before ye are finished? I’ll be glad for it as well. Every moment that everyone is gathered here, no matter how fun and joyous, I fear Grier’s meddling.”
    Callum had thought little of the witch the past few days. He couldn’t see the point in Morna’s worry. As far as he could tell, she intended to keep herself at a distance. Otherwise, why wouldn’t she have allowed him to find her after the fire?
    “I expect it to take another full turning of the moon, mayhap a few weeks more. As long as nothing sets us back.”
    “Hmm…”  
    Morna’s apprehensive noise said more than her words ever could.  
    “Morna…do ye have reason to believe something will?”
    The witch shrugged, pulling away from his arm as she sat down at the top of the castle’s main staircase.  
    “No. ’Tis only a feeling. Grier’s started whatever she wishes to do already. Just ye wait and see.”
    A memory flashed in his mind, something he’d wished to ask Morna about long ago.  
    “Can I ask ye something about the magic here, Morna? I know ’tis not yer doing, but I wondered if mayhap ye ken how it works.”
    Morna laughed quietly, and he could see with her every sarcastic gesture just how much everything bothered her lately.  
    “Clearly, I doona understand a thing about the magic here since I thought she was dead all this time. But please, ask me yer question. I’ll tell ye what I can.”
    “I suppose ye know how we all discovered the portal, aye? Cooper put it all together. When the rest of us thought we were seeing ghosts, he knew we were seeing mirages of those ahead of us.”
    “Aye. I remember. He looked for it so he could find me. He hoped that I would heal Isobel. While I thought it a mistake, I am glad she lives still. What of it?”
    Callum nodded, thinking back on that time at Cagair. They’d all grown close to the kind lady and her husband. He missed Isobel often. Once all was well within his own time, he would make a trip with Adwen and Jane to see her.  
    “I often saw what I thought were ghosts here. Always the same people—three women and a man—I know now who three out of the four are, but I’ve never seen the fourth.”
    “Well, who are the three?”
    “Gillian, Anne, and Aiden. The fourth, I always saw in my bedchamber. Her black hair so beautiful, her eyes so piercing, I found I rather fancied her—ghost or not. But when I came through for the first time—when I met with those I’d seen—I could not make sense of why this lass was not amongst them. How can it be so? Do ye think she truly was a ghost?”
    His question must have stumped Morna, for they sat in silence next to each other for a long while as he watched her ponder over his question. When she finally looked up at him, anger shown in her eyes, and he suspected her answer even before she gave it.
    “’Tis Grier, clearly. Not the lass ye saw, but Grier is the one who showed her to ye. Ye are also the one who saw Grier at the fire. I can see it now—’tis yer life she means to mess with. I told ye not to tease her the other day. If I was a wagering woman—which I only am with Jerry—I’d wager that ye will see this lass soon.”
    He rather hoped that he would. Everyone around him had someone they loved deeply. Why shouldn’t it be his turn to have a go at things?  
    “Do ye think so?”
    Morna stood and crossed her arms as she waited for him to do the same. When he joined her, she turned her back toward him, walking away as she spoke.  
    “Aye, ye will, I’m sure of it. And, Callum, once ye do…doona trust the lass for a second.”

CHAPTER 6

    Italy

    While I thought time would drag due to my excitement about leaving, everything came about quickly once Mark arrived. He was a saint in the kitchen. Even after only one afternoon of him cooking, I could tell everyone in the village would be madly in