"I told you that the black witches can never be trusted" my mother said to me as she narrated how she had tricked the witches my using a clone for the witch meeting instead of herself.

She also told me she wasn't the one who I saw earlier before the day of the meeting, it was rather her clone and that was why the witches were unable to detect or take her powers because the clone already had a connection to another being before the meeting.

I was so glad that my mother tricked the witches and I laughed loudly at their foolishness.

The next day I did not go...