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eyes grew wide, “Why?”
    Caislyn laughed. “I was trying to find my
parents!! What did you think my intentions were! I did a ritual to
ask for help in finding my parents, and what I got was you.”
    Jaxon stared at her new acquaintance, trying to
piece together all this information. “Okay, what do you mean you
got me? I didn't have anything to do with your parents
disappearing. I'm just an art sales consultant.”
    “No, there's more to you. You got into a non-human
rave and we teleported off a roof top together. There's no way you
are just human.”
    Jaxon's brow furrowed and confusion was obvious on
her face. “Teleport? What are you talking about? I'm human.
Always have been and unless bitten by something furry or
fang-filled, I'm staying that way. Here look, my license says I'm a
donor.” Jaxon pointed to the little red heart on her card, “you
only get those if you are human.”
    Caislyn took the license and looked at it. “But I
don't understand.”
    Jaxon put her license back in her pocket and took her
jacket off. “Maybe I'm here to help you in some other fashion,” she
finished as she turned to go sit on the couch.
    “Hey wait, what's that on your shoulder?” Caislyn
asked.
    “Huh? Oh, you mean my birthmark?” she turned and let
Caislyn take a closer look.
    The intricately designed mark took up most of Jaxon's
shoulder blade. It was a web of different symbols completely woven
together to make up a unique brand all together.
    Caislyn remarked “I've seen this somewhere
before.”
    “Um, yea obviously you've seen a lot before,” Jax
replied as she pointed to the sketches.
    “Funny. But seriously, I've seen this somewhere. I
think in a book. Come on, it’s downstairs.”
    The girls went back down the stairwell and through
the door that lead them into the store. They meandered through the
stacks of books and over to the counter where Caislyn began
searching through the books until she found the one she was
looking for. “I swear I've seen that mark, recently, so it must be
over here.”
    Jaxon meandered around the store looking at the
different titles and authors. “Wow, this place is really cool. Is
this how you learned to be a witch?”
    “I didn't learn to be a witch. I was born that way. I
just learned to use my gifts. And yes, my mother and father used
many of the books to help me learn,” Caislyn said quietly. The
mention of her parents brought about a sadness in her voice.
    Jaxon could sense the loss of Caislyn's parents
weighing on her new friend. It was like a heavy coat of wool lying
across her entire being.
    “Wait, here it is. I knew I saw it somewhere,”
Caislyn held the book out to Jax.
    A small black and white picture showed the exact
design that was on Jaxon's shoulder. The caption underneath
stating, “The brand of this ancient lineage of witches is thought
to be an extinct line. Many philosophers believe this family was to
have bore one of the witches mentioned in the Seers Prophecy. In
order for that to be true the line cannot be extinct, but rather
hidden.”
    Jaxon and Caislyn stood there looking at the book and
then at each other. “Human huh?” Caislyn questioned.
    Jaxon swallowed. “Whatever! I don't have any
powers. I can't fly or teleport or whatever we did back there, and
I certainly don't do rituals, of any kind or with any
intention.”
    Caislyn put the book back on the counter. “Well
I don't know what you are, but you are something and it’s not
human.”
    Jaxon sighed heavily, trying to process the
information she had just received. As an adopted child, she had
never known her biological parents, and with this new information
she had to wonder if this was really possible or just some sort of
sick joke nature was playing on her. "I'm adopted. So I never knew
my real parents. I was raised as a human girl; a normal, human girl
by my adoptive parents."
    Caislyn saw the worry on her friend's face and
decided it was time for a drink. The two of them