Sailor escapes through the basement, and is confronted by a large number of her schoolmates, all of whom have received boons from the wytches. Charlie smears the pledge on himself and Lucy, telling Sailor to run and find the Irons, a family of wytch hunters. She begs Charlie to pledge Sailor again, after which they'll erase their memories of her and be able to restart their lives. At home, Charlie and Sailor are attacked by Lucy, who reveals she pledged Sailor in exchange for having her paralysis healed, as well as paying a debt to the wytches owed by her great-grandfather. Charlie and Sailor escape and race home, closely pursued by a large number of devotees of the wytches. Charlie is attacked by a hunter at the same time, who tells him how to hide from and fight the wytches, whose lair is hidden beneath an enormous tree with ginger root clumps growing above ground.

Sailor is eventually captured by the wytches after being 'pledged', smeared with a green liquid that attracts them and identifies the pledge as a sacrifice. The family is also largely unaware that the town is home to its own supernatural secrets, in particular a tradition where a person will pledge another to strange beings, wytches, in the nearby forest in order to gain a boon from them. This proves to be unsuccessful as some of the rumors have followed the family and Sailor still feels ostracized from her new school peers. Eventually the speculation grows to the point where Sailor's father Charlie and mother Lucy decide that the only thing to do is move the family to a neighboring town in the hopes of starting over again.

In this incident, Sailor was attacked and Annie went missing, prompting rumors that Sailor killed her. The family moved to the town of Litchfield, New Hampshire, following an incident involving Sailor and a particularly vicious school bully named Annie. The series follows the Rook family, in particular their daughter Sailor. The rights for a film adaptation have been purchased by Plan B Entertainment, but it has since evolved into an animated series for Amazon Prime Video. The first issue of the series released on 8 October 2014 and is currently published through Image Comics. Wytches is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Jock.

Wytches issue 1