A song for Anna

Sarah smiled.

“Yes. We all do. But it's impossible to talk to them, Anna. They live together with your mother. Don't you know that Allister hunted them like animals all over the land? E... When I think about what they were like... I'm not sure they'd want to meet you. Your mother ran away, to meet the man she had seen in one of her visions. This caused a lot of discomfort in her family, as she was betrothed to another boy and was banished. Being witches, they hid from her. She searched hard for them, but to no avail. They put a spell on her mother so that neither she nor anyone born from her could ever find them. Of course, this made my job much easier. As soon as I learned that their entire race was linked by the same protective magic, I cast a tracking spell, and Allister went to find each one personally. That took a few years... Their kind was many. His mother came last, as I needed her to trace his blood relatives and... Allister was generous and let me have the honor of ending