They were to have a conversation about the United States as an asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression when the attack occurred

Bald Face hornets, the murder hornets of the northeast apparently, the nest bigger than a basketball materialized in days. The witches would say I did that, brought them with my angry grief. But if I could summon such beasts, you would think I could sic them - be handier than a gun eh?