A short memo for inquisitors:
1. Don’t let witches into the castle at the doorstep. The bridge is better to avoid too. And even the neighboring city… Already? We warned you.
2. Don’t talk to witches. Everything you say will be used against you… Though everything you keep silent about will be used against you, too.
3. Don’t offend witches. Because witches aren’t offended. Not so much. They simply add your name to a small black book.
4. Don’t fall in love with witches. Love for a witch is a blessing… that is, a curse—you meant to say!
But what is a rector to do if, by the king’s decree, as many as five dark witches—headed by a red-haired зараз… pleasant one—have appeared on the academy threshold of the Most Illustrious Inquisition? Try to follow at least the last point of the memo.
And if that doesn’t work…
Well, then you’ll have to come up with a new memo.