Maria sits back on her heels and thinks about this. Except for the Black Witch, most of the witches she's met have been good witches. Nice ones. She doesn't have as much experience with bad ones. And MARIA is a good witch too, of course. But she might have been a little bit bad for doing black magic on Mama. And she wouldn't have done that if it hadn't been for the Black Witch.

"Yes," she says finally. "Maria thinks so."