Mia felt tears stinging the backs of her eyes. The loss of someone so special to her had been devastating because Hepseba had been more than a wonderful grandmother. She’d been her only parental figure through most of her youth, she’d given Mia more love than a child could ever expect, and knowing now how she’d used her supernatural abilities to keep Mia safe, brought her sacrifice into perspective. She hoped it hadn’t been in vain. “How did Lisada find me?”
“Hepseba had placed great magic spells around you before she passed. They followed you wherever you went, kind of like a force field surrounding you always, and they suppressed your abilities in order to keep you undetectable, but whatever substance they gave you during the research study in which you participated recently negated the
