Toil & Trouble

Prologue

"Mommy, please tell me the story again?"
"Again? You've heard this story over a hundred times..."

"One more time, please?"

"Your grandmother is making you go crazy with this, but okay one more time..."

...

"three hundred and eleven years ago in a town called Salem our ancestors were brutally killed for being a bit different than the other townsfolk. They had powers, some could manipulate others, some could make things float with their mind, and some had control over the elements around them, and some could heal anything in a matter of seconds. Every full moon all the girls would gather in the woods and give thanks to the Gods for their gifts by dancing around like how the Gods brought them in..."

"Naked right mommy?"

"Yes dear, that's our most vulnerable state and nothing the Gods have not scene I assure you."

"One night when the girls from the town were giving their thanks to the Gods, a perverse man followed them and watched them dance their dance and chant their hymn of gratitude, that man then informed the townspeople and the townspeople called them..."

"Witches."

"Yes dear, now would you like to finish the tale?"

"No mommy I like it better when you tell me"

"Okay my dear, but stop interrupting"

"Before the girls could speak about their skills the townspeople started burning them at the stake and getting crushed by stones quicker than they could run away husbands of the women and their daughters would watch them burn like they meant nothing to them. Even our ancestor Tabitha Martin was burned. But little did the townspeople know that Tabitha had a daughter two-years prior which is why our lineage lives on. Her daughter Cornelia then had a daughter named Ester, and Ester had a son named John. John got married to Primrose who was just like him resulting in a more powerful family line and it went on and on until you were born, and once you're the age of fourteen I will start training you like my mother did me. Remember we are still able to talk to our ancestors which gives us more knowledge of how to control and level with our gifts."

"But mommy, what if I already know one of my gifts?"
"Oh don't be silly dear you're only eight years old your gifts won't start forming for another two years."

She just looked at her mother and nodded while also looking around her bedroom to see a faint shadowy figure place herself down in her princess vanity and another sit on the opposite side from where her mother was on the bed.

"Okay, mommy..."
"Goodnight little love"

she kissed her daughters head and walked out of the room.

"You wanted to hear about us again Ophelia? You could have just called and asked your mom is started to get worried about your interest in this story"

"...Sorry Grandma Tabitha"