ill

woman. The guards were getting nearer, and I heard loud, stra

like hot fire. "The evil council is arriving with many guards to hurt you badly. If y

know Elin?"

glowed a lot more. "The old story isn't just your breaking of the council

forward then. "I will

just leave, the pack might fall apart. You must stay now and hold the

en spoke, voice breaking. "Once I

. I saw that guilt had been eating at his insides. I saw

w," I spoke, holding his

eps arrived at

pushing me to Sage. "K

the guards rushed in. I could hear them yelling, hear them try to guess

was like a maze of tunnels dug into ground below the packhouse. The walls s

me forward. "They'll learn how

sked, my heart raced as w

t us," Sage stated. "A world-aw

going. The only sound was our feet hitting rock and our breaths echoing off walls. After wha

on the door, and i

seen. The trees shone with light, and the air wobbled like heat on a h

ing through door. "This is where the real magi

d it. A rush of energy so intense it almost made me fall to my knees. My

his spot?"

ds. "Your family came from here, long ago. They guarded the balance of nature. They had to stop the

wondered, going after her

replied. She paused by a pool of water

ooked weird and ghostly. But my eyes were new now. They shon

ur people safe. The council cursed you when you were born to hide that magic. They burned you to

ow all of this

told her what would happen. I urged her to ready you, train you to keep the power under

still, with blood running fro

't tell. Yet I sense she's a fighter, lik

s that felt off. It came from some

g her sound instantly.

ent a hunter for her, yet I reached her first. She

ound. Sage called out my name so oddly, but I couldn't stop. My daughter was

fferent. There stood a small home made of white stone. Also, sta

he same golden light that I sensed in myself. And right by

't quit

me, s

rs before, before the curse happened, before the burning. She was smiling

g to hug me. "You're here

ll solid as a rock. Then, while I stared, she sp

ting, Camilla. Truthfully, I'm that old piece of you that turned to