Chapter 401 - The Ritual Begins

After talking for a while, Gretchen finally relented. She then took the time to explain to everyone. with Wilma's help, just why she was so opposed to the ritual idea. In their younger days when they were more free spirited, Gretchen had found and read many of the same books that she had forbade others from reading now. They had even performed one of the rituals in the book for fun one night when they were drunk. The end result was the death of one of their non witch friends. In the end, the death had been ruled as a medical condition, specifically the friend having a stroke that had caused them to die due to lack of blood to the brain. But even then, the coroner had stated several times that they had never seen a stroke occur in a young healthy woman at the age of 25.