Over the next three days, Elinor gets a fever. Anna spends most of her time with her friend, deeply shaken by the thought of losing the woman she's grown so close to.
Luckily, Elinor recovers the next day, which greatly relieves both Anna and Michael.
At the next service, Mompellion announces that they will have "a great burning" (2.13.39) of their belongings. He claims that this is for religious reasons.
The group is standing before the pyre when Brand and someone named Robert Snee approach, dragging a figure in a black veil. It's Aphra.
The group claims that Aphra is the one who's been posing as Anys' ghost and misleading the villagers with promises of magic. For real?
These folks want Mompellion to deal with Aphra now, but Mompellion tells them to hold on to her for the night. He'll take care of it tomorrow.
That night, Brand and Snee torture Aphra by locking her up in a chest-high pit of pig manure. By the next morning, Aphra has clearly gone insane.
Anna is concerned about Aphra's daughter, Faith. She tries to take the child away from her stepmother, but Aphra angrily refuses.
A few days later, Anna finds a now-bald Aphra dancing around her hut, chanting incantations and performing bizarre rituals. This is getting real.
Then, Anna sees the worst part: Aphra has killed Faith.
Anna gets Mompellion to come by, but Aphra has already barred her door.