Christopher "You don't have to do this Sparrow, not if it's going to be painful" I tried to soothe from the driver's seat of our pickup, while Cowyn rubbed circles on the back of her hand. In the six weeks since he had first felt the beckoning pull towards her, the two had become incredibly close and she had accepted him almost immediately as her familiar, her soul's missing counterpart. She was still so young, only 19, and already she had bared witness to such destruction. Wiccans, sometimes, were far too innocent and pure for this dangerous world. Living lives solely within their own community of peace and abhorring any violence, it left them at risk to unscrupulous characters that would take from them. "No, I...I can continue. I don't want to come all this way for nothing." "Just do

