Chapter 80

"Hey Alora."

I wrap my arms tightly around my sister, "Hey Ariella. How've you been?"

"Good. It's been quiet. Hekate is very busy so there hasn't been much for me to do from what I've heard through the grapevine, she's and the other Goddesses are fighting." She smiles at me and swings our arms around like a pre-schooler, "So why did you call on me?"

"Well, I was talking to Dorothy the other day-you know, the nursery keeper. And I was reminded of something she said to me earlier this year," I look up at Ariella and point toward the forest, "I want you to show me where your secret garden is."

She rolls her eyes, "It honestly isn't anything, Alora. Nothing like that Healer of yours. But if you want to see it," She sighed and pulled me towards the forest path, "I'll show you."

She leads me down the familiar path we take towards the meadow and lake by our house. But as we're a half-mile in, she takes a left and into a bush of holly berries. It's beside the large puddle that I had run t