Chapter 38- Burn

“Burn the witches! Burn the witches!”

I watched out the window with uneasiness as an army of commoners marched towards our home with pitchforks and torches. They kept calling us witches. I wonder why? We’re not witches!

Turning back to my parents, I asked, “Why do they keep calling us witches?”

Mother kneeled down and held my cheeks in her warm hands. “Don’t listen to them. They are just angry.”

She had a smile on her face, but I can see the fear in her blue eyes. She brought me into her embrace and whimpered.

This didn’t settle the uneasiness in my chest, but I returned the hug. “Mother?”

“Alexis, you must listen to me.” My father knelt down and placed a hand on mother’s back and a hand on my head. “You must run.”

“What?”

“You have to run. This place is no longer safe,” stated my father.

“B-But… where would I go?”

“Go to Calore.”

“The enemy kingdom?”