New Beginnings

[Isotta Ellesborough]

• “Pleanty!” she exclaimed jubilantly. As the pair walked, the young witch took great care to tell the redhead all about her new friends—princesses, dukes, prominent wizards, wealthy bankers—and the wonderful things they wanted to give her, simply for being her—though she doubted Mr. Prewett believed half of what she said.
  
  “It was all very exciting,” she Isotta concluded a story about would-be robbers being thwarted by a young lady that she met on the train to France. “Though I did not worry once for my safety; I always seem to have the most fortunate luck!”