[Apple]
The dusty old tome creaks as the old witch opens its worn, leather spine.
"As Coven Mistress," she pauses to explain, that as the elder-most witch in the collective, she is the one the rest turn to in times of need. "I keep track of the lineages, or what's left of them since the war. Before we started killing one another, wolves and witches intermarried and raised families together in large, joint communities. At our core, we witches and wolves aren't so much a different species but two sides of the same coin, genetic siblings. It wasn't so uncommon once for witches to be born with a second form, or wolves with the ability to cast marvelous spells."
The nostalgia in her eyes has me wondering again just how old she really is. How long do witches live? Is it that much longer than
