PROLOGUE
“She’s just a kid. Lizzy shouldn’t have to have this burden put on her shoulders! Please don’t make her. She’s already been through enough.” Her voice rung out in the courtroom.
“Clarissa, you should know this better than anyone. You’ve seen what she can do. It is her destiny to go forth with this task. Burden or not a burden, someone has to do it. And it just so happens that your cousin, Lizzy, is the one.”
“No, I’ll find someone else to do the dirty work for you. Not Lizzy. Just not Lizzy.”
“The decision is final. And no one can alter her fate. Retrieve Master Morg and let their paths meet.” The council members were as hard as grey stone; as lifeless as a dead person’s.
Clarissa felt pain and throbbing in her chest as she wondered what Lizzy’s future held for her. Clarissa, herself, had had to go through something like this before. But she knew it’d be a lot harder on her little cousin. She held onto Lizzy’s best friend present that she’d given her all those years ago. The little silver locket Lizzy’s mother left her behind when she’d gotten into that accident. I’m sorry Lizzy, I’m so sorry, Clarissa sent her apologies to her beloved cousin who was a little sister to her.
