Alora's Windsong
Something had stirred.
Far away, in the deep silence of the mountain, the witch’s cabin glowed faintly from within. The door creaked open, and the old witch shuffled through the snow, dragging behind her a pitiful, half-dead tree, a crooked thing with only a few needles clinging to its bare branches.
She dropped it in the corner by the hearth. “A tree for my child,” she rasped, voice like gravel. “And gifts for the faithful.”
From her satchel, she pulled out strange ornaments, bones carved with symbols, bits of glass, feathers tied with hair, and A small animal skull. She hung each one on the withered branches until the thing looked less like a Christmas tree and more like a Voodoo altar.
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