The Black Act Book 1: Witch Twins Born by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

“Are you sure about this, Rosalind?”

Anna looked from the tattered scrolls of parchment to the leather tome open before her. Its paper greeted her with a whispering white page, begging her to take pen and ink and begin her work.

“Quite sure.” Rosalind nodded, but there was a strange glaze to her brown eyes that disturbed Anna. “I trust you. You are a gifted wise woman. Lower level initiate or not, I think you’re ready for this. Perhaps you should consider it a test.”

With that, Rosalind walked to the stone hearth. Its fire burned low at the end of the main scribe room. She poured tea into tin cups and brought these to Anna’s scribing tablet.

Rosalind was working on transcriptions of the guild’s creation history, copying the original documents from the beginning of the wise women guardian sect into more durable leather tomes, to be stored in the Hall of Records where all the combined histories of the Dalthwein region were kept. The Hall of Records was housed in the elder’s land, and only lower level elder scribe teachers were allowed to walk within the elder’s land to retrieve the parchments.

The scribe elder had asked Anna to take over transcribing the guild’s creation history—a story now two hundred and thirty revolutions past. Anna was not only shocked, she was frightened by her scribe teacher’s odd request. Gifted or not, as a second level lower initiate to the guild, she truly didn’t feel comfortable transcribing such precious documents.

Anna thanked her for the tea and took a sip before carefully setting it down far away from the worn scrolls.

“You really think I’m ready for this? That I should be handling a transcription such as this? You only allow ninth level initiates and lower elder scribes to work with our oldest documents.”

“That’s usually the way, yes. But something tells me this should be your job. We’ll find out the reasons for your assignment later, I’m sure. Don’t look so scared. It’s an honor I bestow upon you with this duty.”

Rosalind smiled, but Anna didn’t like the fact her guild mother was avoiding direct eye contact with her. She wanted to look into Rosalind’s mind, but to probe a lower elder’s mind when only a second level initiate, without good reason or permission, was a taboo of the guild.

Since the death of Grianne, why did it feel like everyone was keeping some kind of secret from her? She sighed, and as Rosalind walked farther down the long room to her own tablet and chair, Anna put her tea aside and started assessing the work ahead of her.

***

That night after meeting with Luthien, Claire dreamed of the phantom woman from the northeast woods.

Blood was spilled. An elder wise woman died as the phantom woman, made flesh in Claire’s night visions, plunged her sacred dagger through the woman’s heart.

The ground opened up and ate the witch women whole.

Claire woke and found she was softly sobbing in her sleep. She chanced a peek over at Anna’s cot, illuminated by the tiny sliver of light filtering in from the twin moons.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.