‘Here they sit and knot the threads, child. God has laid the board, He has sewn the cloth, so He will always have the Advantage, but See, the Devil is His Partner, not His Adversary. The Devil plays the other part of the Tapestry. Where God sits and weaves one side of the Cloth of the Universe, the Devil pulls the Strings Through to the Other Side. Each sit and clip, each weave a delicate portraiture of Heaven and Hell. Here, at the bottom, what do you see?’
‘Clippings, Gran, of all the bits and pieces that wore, that fell, that severed.’
‘Very good. That’s what witches are. We’re the Menders. The ones that cut the cullings, respinning them into beautiful threads again, for God and the Devil.’