Chapter 12
‘It’s true, what Daniel said. You could have a Gift—they are passed down through the bloodlines. Our worlds aren’t as cut off from each other as you might think. Your mother came over here all the time, and your great grandmother, didn’t she?’
It was later that same afternoon, and Lillian was standing by the bookcase in her room, rifling through the contents of her shelves. ‘You saw something,’ continued Lillian. ‘I’ve been looking in that stone for years, and … nothing.’
Esme wasn’t sure what to say, or think, about the revelations of the Seeing Stone. The prospect of having a blood relation from Aeolia seemed an impossibility. And even if what she had seen in the stone had been true—which it wasn’t—she wasn’t planning on crowing about it to Lillian, who, she suspected, had
