#CHAPTER 124: Unlocking

ISLA My head was still reeling with the information my mother had told me. Growing up, I had always known that my parents harbored secret powers–but I never thought that they were so connected to the land itself. Or that my mother may have connected with my queen and missing friend mere weeks before she was born. All of the signs we had been seeing led to one probable conclusion: that Mila had magic. There was not a doubt in my mind that my poor friend was likely completely clueless to this fact, or at least had been leading up to her death. Maybe reviving Mila was the solution to reviving Fresonia’s magic. My mother had now risen to her feet and was gazing longingly out the bay window towards the mountains. In these little mountain towns, you couldn’t help but feel more connected to nature–and, to those in possession of powers, to magic itself. I knew that magical blood ran through my own veins, but it was dormant, locked away by my other tr