The Witch And The Alpha
Hestia sighed and reached into her tunic to pull out a small, dried lily that looked exactly like the one I had seen in the dungeon, and she pressed it into Ilyra’s palm with a final, warning squeeze.
"Follow the current where the water runs backwards toward the center, and when the air starts to taste like copper, you’ll know you've reached the edge of their territory," the old woman whispered.
I helped Ilyra back up out of the cellar, and as we walked away from the ruins of the storehouse, I felt the old woman’s eyes on my back like a physical weight that I knew I would never be able to shake off. The rain had turned into a steady downpour, and the thought of the Drowned Witches waiting in