11 Shauna “Moraine! Stop! Where is my sister and father?” I stop outside the door to her rooms demanding answers. “I don’t know, I don’t know where your family is, but I will tell them where you have gone. We have to get you to safety.” “Gone? What are you talking about? I can’t leave now.” “You must leave. We cannot hold the castle.” She glances outside at the swirl of black magick. “It looks like they are here in force. I will give you the books and foods and a weapon, but then you have to go! Come on.” She drags me to her room shoving books into a bag and throwing a dark cloak over my shoulders. She gives me a dagger and a short sword that I have no clue how to use. Then cloaked and armed we make for the kitchen. When the bag is filled with food, she brings me to a statue of an elf

