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The Blessed
“Windfire is going to make a wondrous priestess…” Rainstone grinned an honest smile.
“If we can overlook that one indiscretion with the dream she had…”Crystalwind rolled her eyes.
“You mean her sleep talking?” Rainstone, Windfire’s cousin asked.
“Yes! She was speaking in a loving tone just this morning!” Crystalwind shouted.
“About whom?” Dewstone asked.
“The Gerard heir—Nightshade!” Crystalwind snapped. “And I’ve heard her speak to her sisters kindly of that abomination!”
“He’s actually quite pleasant,” Dewstone countered and lowered her head when the priestess glared daggers at her.
“I agree. She should marry Nightshade so we can get an infiltrator on the inside,” Rainstone nodded.
“Nightshade’s mother is a white witch if you must know. But she doesn’t raise her children. Her evil husband does…” Crystalwind gritted her teeth.
“They’re bound to kill her after Nightshade inherits the coven from Lucithet,” Dewstone said, jumping back into the conversation.
“She has a romantic interest in Nightshade,” Crystalwind informed her nieces.
“Oh, wow…” Rainstone blinked a few times.
“That is why she cannot be allowed to marry him. She’ll fall into dark magic and be gone…” Crystalwind pursed her lips.
“Why wouldn’t you let her do what she wants?” Dewstone asked.
“Because I am the matron!”
“But the coven is hers as of midnight tonight when Nightshade is being initiated as the priest of his coven…” Dewstone argued.
“Stop back talking me or I will…”
“Crystalwind,” Christophe, her mortal husband entered the room. “Nobody has seen Windfire, Snowgust or Lillybreeze for some time now…”
“Why do I sense Nightshade and his council behind this?” Crystalwind glared over at her argumentative nieces.
“Because you don’t trust a good man when you see him,” Dewstone said and then flinched, expecting to be smacked by the matron’s staff.
“No, it’s because I know that Nightshade is a warlock,” Crystalwind said evenly.
“Do you want to look for them?” Rainstone asked.
“Yes, go, go get out of my hair…” Crystalwind said, shooing her nieces away.
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