Aha, so now we finally know the backstory of the Ragwitch. Now having read the whole chapter, I think it's pretty good and fits great with what we already know, but at the time I was pretty annoyed at how super vague everything was. Here's the basic story (don't worry, there aren't many details to miss): This king (called the Patchwork King, I love it) outlawed using magic. Then they had a healer Witch in the army, and she was like, well, can I use more magic to help us win? And he was like Sure, and so she learned lots of magic and raised the rock creatures from the deep and "opened one forgotten door too many" and "danced the steps of Seven Awakenings" (84) (don't you want to know?? I really want to know!! It's frustrating!!) and then got really evil, and boom, ragwitch. Well, first queen of the north. And she took over everything and start killing every living thing in the land. The few Magi that exist but still aren't allowed to do magic finally wise up and start doign magic, but it's not powerful enough and they almsot die out and then suddenly Ornware the antler head awesome guy and the Nature Magic comes to help, and the witch is cast into our world as a doll that can't die. And the crow is set to watch her.
Which kind of disappointed me. Really? That freaking crow from the beginning was supposed to be guarding the most evil powerful entity of all time and Little Julia and Little Paul so easily ran up there, took the doll, and brought it home? I am so unimpressed. What a plothole. There is kind of no excusing this. WHY WERE THESE PUNY KIDS ABLE TO BREAK THROUGH THAT CROWS DEFENCES LIKE TAKING CANDY OFF THE STREET. I remain upset about this.
Anyway, I did like a lot the image of the Magi who were hiding in this place with this stone circle and this ring of rowan trees even older than the rocks themselves, and they're still there, and I'm really hoping that setting will come back in the climax.
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