20. War is Coming . . . My mother has been quiet, too quiet for my liking, three days has passed since my encounter with her yet she has made no appearance, I know she was coming but I had expected her to have come by now, now that she had my father’s full essence in her control. I was still without magic, it was as though I was not a witch in the first place, I had tried even the simplest of spells yet none of them worked, Reed was always by my side, that was this constant fear in his eyes like he feared something bad was going to happen just like I did but I think Reed feared what was going to happen to me. Maybe my mother assumes I was dead, I should have been dead, the moment the essence was taken out of me because it had been my life source in all my entire existence, war was

