The Hunted

Chapter 26

(Lex PTV)

I sat in awe...

How could this witch be my ancestor?

This must be a mistake!

I quickly went for the door, grabbing my coat and keys, and headed for the Hunter Headquarters.

Maybe the archives will have some answers.

I think I floored it the whole way there.

Reaching the 300 year old brick mansion within half an hour.

I bolted past the guard at the door, and headed straight to the archives in the basement.

The old grouchy bag lady librarian greeted me with her usual scorn.

"What do you what?"

She questioned slightly annoyed.

"Hi Pam, nice to see you to."

I said sarcastically.

She just rolled her eyes.

"I need to see everything you have on a Faith DuPont circa 1687."

"What for?"

"Research Pam, need to know basis, and you don't need to know."

She glared at me for a moment but then went to a back room and within a few minutes came back out with a plastic crate full of folders and began sorting through them .. Then handed me a single file . Then she said

"As you know most of the older records were destroyed in the war this is the only thing that I could find"

I looked down at the file then back up at her and turned around and walked away

"Your welcome" she said with a bitchy tone

I walked to the back of the room and took a seat at the desk that was in between the book shelves .

I opened the folder to find only a single page of a faded yellow newspaper.

The headline read:

DUPONT WITCHES BURNED!

3 woman accused and convicted of witchcraft burned at the stake yesterday...

Before I could read any further the ink started fading and much to my surprise a new headline appeared.

It read:

DUPONT WITCHES ESCAPE!

3 woman accused and convicted of witch craft, escaped the stake yesterday...

It faded again, transforming back into the original headline.

Oh no...

Iv created a paradox.

By throwing something into the past that is from the future you create a paradox, and even though for me this happened 400 years ago, it's happening for her right now.

Hunters have been sending witches back for trails for nearly 200 years now and to my knowledge have never created one.

Due to the fact that we always send them back within visible range of our ancestoring hunters.

And executed immediately, so it causes no damage to the timeline.

Unless...

Unless this Faith survived longer then she was supposed to.

I carefully picked up the faded yellow parchment, and a small newspaper clipping fell to the floor, I picked it up.

It read:

ACCUSED WITCH PROVED INNOCENT!

Hunters refuse to comment on mistake.

I looked at the date, it was dated just a few days before the paradox page.

Innocent?

That's what created the disruption in time.

How that's impossible, they should have been able to sense her power the second they laid eyes on her.

What if the old myth was true?

Their is a myth passed around by dying witches, that a hunter could not detect the presence of a so called "good witch"

But I had been told that was just an excuse made up by the witches.

All my years of learning suddenly became questionable.

And I began to unwillingly doubt a few of the teachings taught to me by the elder hunters..

What if this girl is my ancestor?

If something's not done and she dies I will cease to exist.

I wish there was a way for me to stop all this!!!

Suddenly the page blew out of my hand.

The books on the shelves began shaking and tumbling to the floor.

The ground beneath me opened into a swirling black vortex.

The floor beneath me disappeared and I fell through thin air down, straight into the black hole!!

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