well maybe if adoption was more accessible to single parents and lesbian couples, witches wouldn’t have to go haggling for people’s firstborns
*Historian voice* in a monarchy with a small central government and little to no welfare provisions for its predominantly rural population, witches resignedly became both social service and foster parents; confiscating children from parents willing to barter them away for a prince, or a particularly interesting lettuce. In this essay I will
particularly interesting lettuce