Catarina
Finding my mother collapsed against a tree was startling. Then to have claw marks drawn across her face. I worried it wouldn’t heal. But as we got her to the castle, they were nearly healed. I breathed in relief. Thoughts of losing her before her time was enough to make me want to take over the coven as quickly as possible.
After we got her into her room, I lay in bed, curled into her body. My arm draped over her stomach. She rested as I clung to her like a child. It was something I hadn’t done since I was a fledgling. Mother groaned in her dead sleep. Sitting up, I watched her body writhe.
“We’ll find who did this Mother. That beast wont know what happened to them.” When we had searched the area, there weren’t any signs of a large animal. There’s hardly anything that can take
