Epilogue

**Maeva**

**800 Years Later**

I stared down at the cup as the leaves seeped into the boiling water. I could feel it now in my bones that the time had finally come.

I used my magic to pick up the spoon and stir the tea, the gnarled bones of my hands too fraught with arthritis now to be much good for anything.

*‘It is time?’* Ylva asked excitedly.

It surprised me to hear her. She had been mostly q