Plain Kate is written from the perspective of a girl named Katrina Svetlana, the book takes place in the olden times when witches were burned. Kate was orphaned at a young age. Her mother had died giving birth to her and her father had passed away many years later from a disease which had affected many people's loved ones. When Kate was born her father had given her the nickname “Plan Kate” because she was “plain as a stick” which the town butcher had stated after her father had told him about the child. Kate’s father had been a carver and had started teaching her at a young age. When the disease which had killed her father migrated to the small town, everyone called it the “witch fever” and put the blame on people who they thought were witches,
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Kate had a feeling that the pale stranger was a witch, but when he had approached her to get a bow carved she accepted, not knowing how that one moment would change her life. A while after the stranger had asked her to carve the bow, he introduced himself as “Linay” and asked her if he could have her shadow inreturn of anything she desired. She of course said no, but for a couple of months from then on he kept on trying to make her life miserable by making people think she was a witch hence why they started destroying her belongings and stopped buying carvings from her. As the town slowly decided it was time to burn her, Kate decided to trade her shadow for items which would help her to abandon town. But first she needed to drop of the last objarka before she left because she is a humble person and he had already paid her. The customer had realized Kate was going to flee which caused him to change his mind about her being a witch so he sent her with a roamer group. The roamers are a “family” of people who visit town after town doing tricks and selling stuff trying to earn money. They had to decide whether or not to let her join them. The leader said he will decide after they reach the next town because he wanted to see how much money she could make for
Kate had a feeling that the pale stranger was a witch, but when he had approached her to get a bow carved she accepted, not knowing how that one moment would change her life. A while after the stranger had asked her to carve the bow, he introduced himself as “Linay” and asked her if he could have her shadow inreturn of anything she desired. She of course said no, but for a couple of months from then on he kept on trying to make her life miserable by making people think she was a witch hence why they started destroying her belongings and stopped buying carvings from her. As the town slowly decided it was time to burn her, Kate decided to trade her shadow for items which would help her to abandon town. But first she needed to drop of the last objarka before she left because she is a humble person and he had already paid her. The customer had realized Kate was going to flee which caused him to change his mind about her being a witch so he sent her with a roamer group. The roamers are a “family” of people who visit town after town doing tricks and selling stuff trying to earn money. They had to decide whether or not to let her join them. The leader said he will decide after they reach the next town because he wanted to see how much money she could make for