‘Please!’ Wren screamed her voice ragged as she threw herself down the hill, momentum propelling her fast and hard towards the river. She couldn’t let them leave with Banba. She was the only family Wren had ever known, the only one who had a plan for the future, for the throne they had fought so hard for. She would be lost without her grandmother. Banba would be lost without the witches. She couldn’t let them take her. She wouldn’t.
