Tainted Lineage

Bastian was reading over my shoulder, and he gripped the back of my seat.

It was right there. There had never been a break in her chair's lineage. Her ancestors would have been a part of the genocide that wiped the Earth of the male spell casters.

Vera wanted to keep magic controlled by women, by her.

"Her family was one of the original members. She would have known about what they did to the s