Чтение through the series ( spooks sacrifice yet) Tom has at times been helped by girls, a.k.a Alice and Mab who are in fact witches.

Alice= Firstly he has a friendship, though strongly disapproved of by his master, with Alice, a young girl who will grow into a witch, though it is uncertain whether she will become malevolent или benign. However, both his mother and his master's love, a Lamia witch called Meg, have advised him to "treat her better than John treated me and it won't end like this". Tom continues his friendship with Alice, despite the warnings дана by the Spook. He also seems...

Описание of a worme spooks bestiary:"wormes are dangerous creatures that range in size from that of a small dog to something as big as a house. some have legs, most have tails and all are vicious and bad-tempered. Their bodies are sinuous and eel-like, but covered with tough green scales that are difficult to penetrate with a blade. They have long jaws with a mouth full of fangs that can bite off a head или an arm in a twinkling of an eye. When on land they can also spit a deadly poison that is quickly absorbed by the victims skin, with fatal results. Some wormes have short stubby wings,...

I was just looking through and I realized that maybe the whole seventh son of a seventh son thing might work on a girl.
Or would that just make them an amazingly powerful witch или a good witch?
So if a girl could be a spook would they be allowed to because the spook doesn't seem to like girls doing men jobs. Also a girl and man on their own are a bad mix.
But it would be quite cool if there were female spooks that fought witches and stuff. I suppose in a way that's what Tom's mum was. Even though she is Lima.
How would they react if the spook met a female spook. (probably something to do with a...