Chapter Twenty-Five

The River

Unknown

Things moved quickly around the farm the next day, almost everyone was packing up, awaiting some other clue or sign of where they should be. It was decided that the two elderly members of their group would stay behind with 3 children and one of the pregnant women, they would all look after things when the rest traveled. She was more than happy to take off, to escape the oppressive heat of Louisiana, and to meet this person calling to them. She knew it was family, without a doubt. The family rune had been used, and she felt that strong connection in the message.

Being the youngest meant that she had less time to learn than her siblings, but one of the first lessons anyone in the village had ever gotten was the importance of a blood line. She and most everyone in her family were something most called holders, which meant they held some sort of Magic.

The story went that one woman, a volva in the early times of settling, watched her own family run out into the night,