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"Justina there is something I need to tell you." Mandy sounds worried. she will be fifteen this summer and is worried about everything of late.

"Shoot." I encourage my little sister.

"Not here!" She protests, gesturing around her to the empty living-room. "This is serious and I don't want mom or dad to find out."

"Okay." I agree easily. I follow mandy up the stairs to our room, where she promptly locks the door and flops on her bed.

"What's up?" I ask, sitting beside her. I know that my sister trusts me absolutely, and will tell me anything. No matter what she tells me we can deal with it, we're best friends, not just sisters.

"Promise not to tell anyone? Ever?" She begs. Of course this only peaks my curiosity, I always want to know what is going on.

"Promise. I swear." I tell her solemnly. I feel the slight zapp of electricity, but I ignore it. What on earth could be this bad? Is she pregnant or something?

She takes a deep breath then cracks. "I broke the moon rules." She whispers, clearly desolated.

For a moment I just sit there in shock. Here I was prepared to accept anything, never expecting that my baby sister could have done anything this bad. To break the moon rules was unheard of. Some of the top specialists speculated that breaking them would rip the barriers between the boundaries, allowing all sorts of disgusting creatures that had been sealed away from our world to be let back in. There was no way that that should have been possible.

"How?" I choke out at long last. My sister just breaks, it's like a dam has exploded and released this monster of emotions and urgency.

"I don't know how!" She wails, throwing herself at me and sobbing into my shoulder. "It was a total accident! We were just playing by the strange stone with the graffiti on it, you know the one?" She chokes on a sob, snot and tears running freally down her splotched red face. I nod, hugging her to my shoulder; not knowing what to say.

"And then Rachel was all like 'you know that this place is all magical and stuff. Bet we could get through here?' And I just laughed, and was like sure why not? So we concentrated our energies together and directed it at the stone" she hiccoughs gulping in a large amount of air.

"The stone started moving... And then we pulled out energies back, but they were stuck together, like someone had knotted them into a ball!"

"And I got so *hiccough* scared! It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me! So I freaked out *hiccough* and I cut the *hiccough* energies. But they didn't do *hicough* like they were suppose to! They tied themselves to the stone. And then these horrible terrifying things kept running through my head!" She begins to cry harder, rocking back and forth as I try desperately to sooth her. Somehow she managed to continue with her story.

"I killed her! I killed her. It was an accident! I didn't know it would kill her! How was I suppose to know?! I didn't  mean to kill her!"

"You killed her with your magic?!" Ohhh shit. This is worse than anything I could have thought of. Killing another with magic was a huge crime! She could be banished for this! Except she can't be banished because she broke the Moon Rules and by the sounds of it the barrier!

"It was an accident! Don't tell. You promised not to tell!" Her magic flared up, now tainted red. It use to be snowflake white, which was something special. The red shouldn't be there.

"Don't worry I won't tell. I can't tell." I remind her.

"Oh right! That silly charm we put on our room because you suspected Jay to be a tattle tale."  She has almost stopped crying, and I vaguely wonder how long this has been open, dismissing the idea of asking at once.

"Tell me it will be okay?" She asks.

"I wish I could. All I can see for sure is us running away. It's soon, so we should make sure our bags are secure." I tell her. But it's a truth bending, since we can not lie in this room.

That is not all I see. I can also see my little sister ruling something, and whatever it is, its big. I can also see us being chased. We're going to have to step up our game if we want to survive this. And I desperately want to survive this.

"Okay so this is going to be hard, but tell me what you saw. Or how you felt. It will help with the predictions."

She is use to this, I've been predicting her future for years, even though I haven't told our parents about her ability. They just think I'm super good at knowing when stuff will work out. Seeing the future, not the Fates.

Me and my sister are strange, even by magical standards. She had the purest magic ever seen, a clean slate. She could do anything with her magic. Air, Fire, Water, Earth, she could do it all.

I was born with what looks like no magic. The reason for that? My magic is a mirror, and a shield. Because of its mirror like qualities, I can see into people's futures. But it's more than your ordinary hedge witches ability to see short-term-and-only-if-you-follow-a-specific-course seeing the future. It's seeing all the possible futures and or reasons for it. Sometimes I can actually see Fate strings, the energy that draws two people together.  The shield part is that it is invisible. "Can't have power if you don't have a power aura." Big mistake.

Now my power in comparison to my sisters is actually more dangerous, but I've made a point of not prying into my families future. It's better when people ask vague questions, because then I can give them straightforward answers. "Will it be okay?"  Has four answers. Yes, eventually, no, and possibly.

This is a definit "no" situation.

"Actually, wait. We need to get out of here first." I tell her, grabbing my magical backpack, which I have had fully stocked for months.

I open the door, motion for Mandy to go first, then jump down the stairs. We walk out of the house and onto the street without our parents noticing, but I can see Jay's fate string thicken around Mandy.

"Shoot! We need to get out of here before Jay tells mom and dad."

"On it." Mandy re assures me, grabbing my hand. I can see her magic massing around her, and Jay's string weakens slightly.

"Now!" And we are sucked into the earth, the earth that we've displaced taking on our shapes and walking back down the street. Now, I wait.