Chapter 1

She had vibrant red hair that waved like the sea. A sea of blood colored water. She sang the babe in her arms to her sleep. As its eyes were about to fully close, the woman placed the child in to a confined space before securing it inside.

It was a vague memory, but every now and them it would come to her. The other kids called her a Night Witch. They apparently have hair as dark and black as ink or the night sky and silver eyes with skin as pale as the moon alongside grotesque features.

Other than the grotesque features, a Night Witch sounds attractive. Granny told the child that Night Witches come from the Darklands on the other side of the mountain they live on. They come to our side to steal children for their evil deeds and curses. The other thing they do is eat them to maintain they youth and beauty. Not a bad deal if they only take the bad children who deserve to be eaten and sacrificed, but that was her personal opinion.

Granny is the eccentric elder woman who found the baby stored away in a barrel. She was nice enough to take care of the baby. The older woman has taught her a wide range of things that a child of her age would never know. It is for these reasons alone, that the child have set off into the forest to locate what she needed to make a present for Granny.