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“First of all, thank you all for coming,” Padma began. “I know I said we were going to lay low for a while, but things have changed. There’s a new threat in town, and we cannot hope to defeat it unless we work together.”
“It’s about the Dark Sisters, isn’t it?” Ethan asked. “We’ve heard the rumours that they’re in town.”
“Not to mention the weather yesterday,” Elara added. “I dropped a glass of water on the counter and it froze in less than a minute. That didn’t seem natural to me.”
“It is about the Dark Sisters,” Padma nodded. “They’ve abducted Enaya and Asher’s parents, and they apparently have an ultimatum. Leave Crestfall in the next twenty four hours, or they die. Now we know the Dark Sisters wouldn’t do something like that for no reason. Someone is paying them to do it. And o
