Phon joined us a few minutes later while I pondered what his sister just said. He sat next to her, lifting Sassafras into his lap. The healer twins weren't affiliated with any covens, keeping themselves outside the family system, working directly for the Council, but I couldn't help thinking of them as mine.

"Did you have any idea this was happening?" If anyone had, it would be them.

But they shook their heads in unison, fraternal ...