Forces Beyond The Grave

8.1

"To tell me the truth, about everything. But it wasn't Kaila, that's what you were right about. The real Kaila died, five days after she went down that hole, but the spirits of the house...at least that's what she said, they kept the body to use as a vessel. A way for the spirits to...to walk around outside the boundaries of the manor I guess." She shrugged, letting out a quiet laugh. "I know it sounds crazy. But I found out what happened to my mom Jay, because who I was looking at in Kaila's body? It was her. My mom. It was her spirit." 

"What?" 

"Yeah. She said that the day she went missing, it was her time to sacrifice herself to the manor, to keep its energy strong, just like all the other women in our bloodline had done before her. She took her own life." 

"Oh my God. Lennox, I'm so sorry. I don't even know what to say." 

"Neither did I. But it was nice to know the truth about what happened to her. And she told me about Ekaterina Quinn, why I look like her. I'm her dopple ganger, right down to the DNA. She was the first woman in our bloodline, born to a bunch of traveller witches, she had a lot of magic, but the elders of that time wanted to separate her magic between them to keep it contained because it was too powerful to be wielded by one person. There was a ritual for them to spread out her powers, she didn't want it to happen, so she combined traveller and witch magic and started experimenting with dark energies, it made her too strong for her own good. The manor belongs to her, her family, it's been there since they discovered the land and built it for themselves, so it all happened there, all her magic and power is linked to that house, and to me. Apparently Skye, Sasha, and Kaila were descendants of Ekaterina's friends who she made an immortality spell for, but Ekaterina fell in love when she was sixteen, it was forbidden, she fell pregnant and had a girl, the guy was a soldier, they wanted to see each other again in death and she got word on her nineteenth birthday that he'd died in the war, so she tried to adjust her immortality spell because she wanted to be able to die, and be with him, but ended up killing herself and her friends, and cursing themselves in the process. Forever destined to relive their lives over and over until the legend of the recurrence comes true. That's me. As Ekaterina's dopple ganger, apparently blessed with the same amount of power, it's my job to help break the cycle, and in order for that to happen I have to live past nineteen. The dark magic that took my ability to feel when I was sixteen, was to stop me reliving her history, and falling in love, so that I would live past nineteen and be able to...bring her back."