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The Crone, it turned out, was not the wealth of information we had wanted. Katherine had left,
against her orders, to be with her mate, and other than a few phone calls, the old witch had not seen her young protégé until Katherine returned with Kiana and Ragor in tow.
When Kiana had described her memories, the Crone had simply rolled her eyes and said it was
hardly that dark and dramatic, but she admitted that her visions of a darkness consuming the
mountain had begun not long after that.
“You could have done more to help her,” I accused her. “Instead, Katherine was murdered, and
Kiana was raised by her insane father.”
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“Everything that I did put her in the path of you. Short of allowing her to die, which I could have, vow or not, this was the only course of action that would give her a fighting chance. Now, I will tell you what I know about a ternary. After that, all I can do is help Kiana learn to control her magic before Claudine catches up to her. It will be up to you to learn what Claudine knows of ternaries.”
“I would rather learn from them,” Kiana said quietly as she nodded her head to the three witches.
“Considering what I know of you, I imagine it will take all of us and then some to get you ready,” the Crone retorted. “The Mother is coming the long way. She will be here soon.”
All the Darkwyn witches under one roof and on my land. That wouldn’t give me nightmares at all.
“Now then, a ternary is a creature made of three. Wolf, witch, and null. Eons ago, nulls were born of Fae, back when they were more prevalent on the earth. Unlike what history likes to imply, they were
not hunted down to extinction.
They drew up one too much magic of the earth and nearly drained it dry. The earth, in protecting itself, cut them off. A single generation was born without magic, and the Fae could not adapt. They died out within the next two-hundred years.
Nulls were one of many talents born among the Fae, and all were thought to be lost until a single witch line produced one. No one knows whether a pocket of Fae survived or if the talent was gifted before it was wiped out, but the Fae magic only graced a single line of witches. Somehow along the way, the fear of a ternary cropped up.”
“Why?” Kiana whispered.
“Because despite what we might wish, there is human in all of us, and our curiosity likes to mix things up, shake it around, and see what happens. Since witch and wolf mates did not produce
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cross-species, it was nothing more than a boogieman to scare little witch children who wouldn’t go to bed on time. Most of the theories were nonsense. Three-headed monsters or being able to
walk between the living and the dead.
However, one theory did make an uncomfortable amount of sense. A single being that could wield the three magics, witch, wolf, and Fae, may be able to produce a fourth kind of magic.”
Kiana snorted. “What kind of fourth magic? I can’t even extinguish a stupid candle.”
“And yet, I’ve been told you nearly drained the largest pack on this mountain to save three wolves.”
Immediately, Kiana stiffened. “That’s witch magic. Maybe some wolf magic. It has nothing to do with me being a null.”
“You have no idea what it means, and neither do I. But we will find out. If we’re lucky, we’ll find out before Claudine Frost can get to you. Normally, I would say you should go in hiding, but for now, I suspect that this is the safest place for you. More bodies to sacrifice themselves for you.”
Kiana visibly paled, and I growled. “That’s enough. Nobody is going to die.”
“Wolves will die, pup. Even you are not naïve enough to believe differently. I’m told you were able to pull some records from Claudine’s pack. I’ll need to see them. We need to find out when Claudine learned of ternaries and from whom. Wolves I know nothing about, but I have knowledge of most of the witches that walk this continent. That is why we need to move quickly.”
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