Hm, precisely as others pointed out earlier. I think I may have simply underestimated the ability of witches to take advantage of their own subculture and lines of communication, perhaps. Or, you know, egg nog. That might have been part of why I wasn't parsing the ramifications correctly, too.

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her