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ALDER'S POV

I knew it was a crazy thing to have just revealed my true identity after all these years. I grew up disliking nothing more than witches because my father was always against them and just everything that they were but one was in fact my mother, and that caused me to be quite unhappy about a lot of things because I never treated my mother the way she deserved because I was fed lies about her since I was a child. I hated my father for lie to me about witches when in fact my mother had been one of the best one could ever ask for...giving herself nothing, but giving us everything. He was vehemently against the existence of every witch, denouncing their very nature. These prejudices seeped into my consciousness, shapibg the nature of my perception of witches and tragically my own mother as well.

Unknown to me, my mother, the woman I'd grown to despise through the words of my father was herself a witch-a fact concealed behind a web of lies and deception practiced by my father. I