we witches 3

Though only one which was needed all 3 came when the Crone was summoned. Seeming eager to meet a first generation she-elf born into the royal family with a matched bond that allows psi connections with powers of necromancy and access to the netherworld.

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We were in my mothers observatory and lab. The witches stepped through a portal made of wind. Swirling like a vortex with sparks of electricity. Nothing but the darkest black inside behind them.

I've never seen them come through, I've only read about them. Being able to manipulate magic and move through the Waylines was a very advanced form of magic few knew how to access. My mother coming from the line of elves that taught the witches and my brother Alistar are the only two people I know capable of using them.

The observatory was a room with white walls and a glass ceiling. In the center was a large moving map of the stars. I always thought it was so beautiful. The map was made of a dust of some kind and you can manipulate the dust to show you images and answer questions on occasion. Tables with herbs and powders of all kinds lined the back wall and shelves with all sorts of different magical items lined the sides.

With the witches arrived the meeting begins.

"This is the dearest child that can move between the world of the living and the world of the dead" the Crone said "come let me see you" as I step closer I see she is blind. See what?

She reaches out and grasps my marked hand.

"Oh and andromeda what a lovely child you bore" the crone said "so much potential. Many seek what she has, the abilities she will learn have the chance to turn the tides. Only with life can death be tamed." The Crone said her eyes glowing a milky white and she turned her head to Theo and said it again. "Only life can tame death"

Then she dropped my hand. And looked at my mother. "I have seen all you have seen, I know all that you know now" the Crone said "child, you walk in two worlds, that is a very rare gift. Not only can you control death but channel it and have the ability to command it even if you so choose." The Crones eyes now black "Dark times are nearer as a being born from the malice and hatered in the world, the Rot begins tearing at the fabric between the world of the living and the world of the dead." "Creatures from the netherworld will cross through to our world bringing the dead with them," said the Mother

"The dead and the living cannot share a world" the Maiden followed.

In unison "only life can tame death".