What if she was hiding and waiting for me just ahead? I also knew that she probably hadn’t got very far.
For one thing, it wasn’t more than five minutes or so after midnight. Whatever was in the cakes she’d
eaten, I knew that dark magic would have played some part in getting her strength back. It was a magic
that was supposed to be more powerful during the hours of darkness - particularly at midnight. She’d
only eaten two cakes, not three, so that was in my favour, but I thought of the terrible strength needed to
bend those bars.