Tickles

As she sneaked back to the tower, Alexa thought about what she knew about the witches who were close to Cordelia. Apparently, the missing chaperone was Catalina, but Alexa reproached herself for not remembering her face. She was one of the novices who had come from the convent where Cordelia studied for years and arrived with Sister Ludovica, and another novice named Elke. They came to replace the chaperones Cordelia had lost in the villa incident.

It meant that Cordelia knew them, or at least, had followed the wishes of her mother, that impeccably Christian-looking matron. Alexa knew it was very difficult to know if the old chaperones had died in the villa as victims, or had fled. Or even, if they had died like the witches her friend Locke had sent to hell, as they so wanted.

If Father Gianpietro's theories were right, and Cordelia was an important piece in a ritual, the connection with Princess Letitia, should be in older women. The true leaders of the Cult.