When she started speaking, she didn’t stop until it was all laid bare. She told me about Gemma Perrone and her visions. The fall of the MacAllister witches and the subsequent eradication of us from everyone’s memory. The reason she had been training the five of us, witches and orphans, for the last year. The purpose of the medallions. Shock rendered me speechless, and I remember staring at her in horror. Only the five of us will survive the first wave of the massacre, and of us five, only one will ultimately survive to carry the MacAllister lineage forward. She continued to explain about the
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