“Then you're worshiping nothing... no one,” I shook my head sadly. “There are only two divine beings; one is Danu, who rules Fairy, and one is Anu, who rules Earth. They are twins, Danu is female while Anu is male.”
“Like us,” Alex smiled at his sister and took her hand.
“And our Danu would never consort with murdering filth like you,” Torquil scoffed.
“She wouldn't be able to, even did she want to,” Tiernan frowned. “This is not her realm and he's human.”
“Yet she spoke to me,” I lifted a brow at Tiernan.
“You are half fey,” Tiernan shook his head, “and you were born in Fairy. Danu has been with you since the second of your birth. She just couldn't cross over into the Human Realm with you.”
“Wait... what?” I blinked in shock. “No, I was born in San Francisco.”
“No, Seren,” Tiernan cocked his head at me. “Didn't your father tell you? Your mother went to Fairy to give birth to you, she wanted to stay there but your father convinced her it was best to hide you in the Human Realm.”
“He never told me,” I huffed. “He told me what they decided but he never told me that I was born in Fairy.”
“I'm surprised that the Goddess didn't tell you,” Raza mused.
“You hear her?” The witch glared at me doubtfully.
“I've seen her,” I took it further. “Thereisa goddess but she's not your goddess, she can't possibly know about you witches.”
“That's bullshit!” The witch screamed and I flinched back. “We are children of the Goddess. She looks after us. I may never have seen her face but my ancestors have. There are records of interactions with the Goddess in several tribes.”
“Could she have crossed into this realm?” I asked Tiernan but he was already shaking his head.
“Impossible,” Tiernan said to both the witch and me. “Whomever your ancestors spoke with, it wasn't Danu and therefore, it wasn't a goddess.”
“You lie,” the witch growled. “You're liars!”
I headed upstairs, there was nothing more I could say to the witch that would help him and I saw no point in prolonging the conversation. Still, I sympathized with him. He might be a killer but everyone deserved to have a religion, something to have faith in, and we'd just stolen his, along with his memories.
“Perhaps they were speaking to fairies,” I heard Raza say to the witch as I reached the top step.
The man shouted insults at Raza until we closed the door on the stairway and blocked out his voice. I gave Raza an annoyed look but he only laughed and swept past me into the hall. The rest of us followed him into the library while Alex went to gather the council members, all except Teagan of course, who still hadn't returned.
We settled around the library's central table and when the council members came in, the twin's gave us their report. William Sehoka and he was a member of Flight; a clan of witches who possessed the ability to heal themselves and extend their lives through the consumption of human hearts. They believed that they inherited this ability from their raven mocker ancestors but altered it with their humanity. Unlike the mockers, they had to cut the heart from their victim's chest and then heal the wound to hide their theft.
The twins discovered a mass amount of knowledge on William's clan; who they were, where they lived, what they did for a living. We had addresses and even phone numbers for them. It was ridiculously easy but if these witches knew what we were capable of, they'd go into hiding before we could even begin to use the information we'd gained from Mr. Sehoka.
But that wasn't all the twins learned. Flight wasn't the only clan of witches. Just as the twins began to tell us about the bigger picture, Councilman Teagan entered the room with my Star's Guard, Raye, Cat, and a few extinguishers. He looked a little bruised and dirty but otherwise unharmed.
Cat came running over to me.
“Hey you,” I scratched her head as she sat beside me, and then I looked over to Ainsley. “Is everyone alright?”
“Yes, Princess Seren,” Ainsley assured me. “We are all accounted for.”
“We lost two extinguishers,” Extinguisher Kate said grimly. “Tim and Kent.”
“I'm so sorry,” I offered gently.
“Did you interrogate a witness without me?” Teagan asked as he came forward. I could tell that the deaths had unsettled him. It wasn't often that someone got the better of an extinguisher.
“What would have been the purpose of waiting?” Raza lifted a brow. “Do you not trust your own people to inform you of all that we've learned?” Raza waved a hand towards the twins, who looked at Teagan with casual curiosity.
“No, of course I trust them to...” Teagan exhaled roughly. “I would have preferred to have been here from the start.”
