Hawthorn, Hazel, Hemlock, and Holly

Why use one tree name, when you can use four…

Hawthorn, Hazel, Hemlock, and Holly

Holly twirled a lock of her hair around a finger and sighed. “Well, I don’t see what’s so important about this meeting. They’re just a couple of old, stuffy warlocks. Who would want to be a wife to one of them?”

“You would, if you know what’s good for you,” Hazel said as they walked up the steps of a great stone house. “Hawthorn and Hemlock are well respected, and what you call old, I call powerful.” She took...