Chapter 77 - Settling into life as a mated couple.

Phillipa

The witches greeted us with such love and excitement that all my fears disappeared instantly. I realized that I was scared of how they were going to react to having a man in their midst, but they all seemed so happy to meet Andre, that my fear quickly disappeared. Andre and I learned about how everything and everyone was linked through some invisible force.

We learned about how the witches believed in harming nothing. They didn’t even kill a spider! They believed that all life was precious. They also taught us that they believed good and evil had to exist for the world to be in balance. If it didn’t, something was sure to go wrong. I didn’t entirely understand it. Peace was so precious to me that I couldn’t imagine what they were saying to be true.

“Let me put it this way, your highness. If your family hadn't gone to war with the werewolves and the slave masters, would there have been peace?” The high priestess smiled, and I had to give it to her. It made sense finally. There