Head Healer Helene
Helene stood above the now-sleeping Lady Exsil Vis and felt her heart break into a million pieces.
Magi blood ran through the veins of Anala and of her sister Miranda, to whom Helene had administered the same sleeping draught. Magi blood ran through the veins of Jester, who had arrived back in Atherton two days beforehand, with her wife James. The young couple had come to Helene just minutes before Lares had found the healer. James carried Jester, saying she couldn't breathe and wouldn't stop crying. Helene wouldn't be surprised if her grandson, Magi-blooded Ather, on the road with Alexandra Lihin or perhaps now in Atton, was screaming uncontrollably as he felt life ripped from his lungs.
Magi blood that spoke of the death of one of their kind.
She'd never forgotten
