Martha. She had laughed when he asked her name as they had walked through St. Giles, and said that he could call her anything he pleased. But he had wanted her name and so she gave it. Of course, he had known it before he asked, known she was the one, carefully chosen and watched for two days bef...
He had rubbed the treatment along her scalp and the roots of her hair, taking care to work it in well. His mother had used this recipe. Repeated it again and again to rid the hair of vermin. She had sworn that he and his brother were crawling with vermin. He had never seen a one. Not on his own h...