A Warning

Ashlynn paused for several minutes while she considered what the ghost had said. Without doubt, she would fight to protect Eldritch lives from human aggression. But seeing the indiscriminate destruction the other witch had unleashed that spread as far as a village full of people who weren't trying to fight her... Men, women, children… innocents who had never threatened anyone were consumed by the flames unleashed by this righteous-sounding Mother of Trees. 

War was war and in war, death was inevitable no matter how well a person fought. No amount of careful preparations or clever tactics could stop horrible things from happening once the first arrow was loosed from a bow. But innocents? She didn't think she could ever put whole villages to the torch the way Claire du Gaal had done.