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    I glared at Brie, willing her to shut up. I didn’t need to hear any more. She totally ignored me. “I don’t know why you have to perk up whenever witchcraft is mentioned, Brie.”
    “From what I know about the girl I believe Nera to be,” Jasper replied ignoring my outburst, “there is very little that she won’t be able to do.”
    “But why?” Sully shook his head. “I mean, why would a curse need a normal mortal girl to break it?”
    “When the gods banished Edrith down to earth, they involved humans, a mistake on their part possibly. Now the door is wide open for evil to come through. I guess in the heat of the moment, sending Edrith here was the best thing to do. But what it did was change the course of the world.” He looked like he wanted to say more, but I interrupted him.
    “Why would the gods intervene, though?” I asked him, my curiosity getting the better of me.
    “Because, my dear, Leona was Mari’s younger sister. The Queen of the Witches’ younger sister fell in love with me and came here to live among the mortals.”
    “You married a god’s little sister”. Brie sounded astonished, her mouth dropping open. “I didn’t think that was possible for a god to marry a mortal.”
    I looked from Brie to Jasper. Something was not right.
    “Is there something that you are not telling us, Jasper?” I glared at him, knowing full well that he was keeping something from us.
    He stood up and lifted his chin, no longer looking like the sad person that he was minutes before.”Yes, there is. I have powers too. Not as strong as Leona had or even what you will come into, but as a Wiccan, I have certain abilities.”
    Brie squealed and bounced up and down, clapping her hands in excitement.
    “You are kidding me, right?” I shook my head.
    “No, girl dear, I am not. Let me show you.”
    Jasper turned to the corner of the room. Energy spiked and crackled in the air. With a flick of his hand, the window blew open, letting in a swirl of snowflakes that drifted around our feet. I looked at him in awe. He was telling the truth. He was a witch. A small breeze picked the frozen crystals up, and they swirled around our heads. Brie giggled with delight before Jasper sent them out the window to melt on the grass outside.
    He watched me mull over the possibilities. I knew Brie would be ecstatic with anything to do with magic. Sully had an I-told-you-so look on his face. But was this my future all mapped out for me without any care to what I might want? Bugger what the gods had decided. This was my life, and I would live it how I wanted.
    ***
    Later that night, I tossed in my sleep. The same visions came to haunt me as they had before, but another presence appeared. A handsome, dark-haired young man was standing with Leona in the garden, his eyes hidden underneath the black hair hanging over his face. His appearance tugged at something in my memory, but it would not come to the surface.
    I woke the next morning with a thumping headache between my eyes. I pulled on my trackpants before I slipped on my running shoes and ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Mom and Dad were both already up and reading the papers over a cup of tea. I grunted as I ran past them with Hugo at my heels.
    Rain threatened overhead, the dark clouds rumbling ominously. I headed out of the yard, down the lane. The air was still cool because summer hadn’t yet made its appearance, and it helped clear the cobweb feeling from my head. Yesterday had been too much to take in all at once. Brie had accepted it eagerly, but that didn’t surprise me at all. What threw me was Sully’s interest. I mean, he was usually the one who scoffed at Brie whenever she wanted to give him a tarot or angel card reading. He seemed so against magic until Jasper showed his hand. And the way he had looked at Jasper, it was with hero worship if I was not mistaken. Traitor .
    With the sound of my feet pounding over the bridge, I turned for home, the headache