"Superstition and misunderstandings led to a lot of death back then. If people couldn't explain it, something otherworldly must've be at fault. Not true on our world, but they didn't know that a thousand years ago."

The final brushes on the shotgun and it was also put aside. Blaine arched his back and gave a small noise of relief when his back cracked. "Burnings, dunking people in water, all sorts of methods they used to try and figure out of someone was a 'witch'."

The holster was undone and slid from his arm and out of belt loops to be set on the table. The towel once again came into play as he set to getting the small, random splatters of goop off of it.