Just A Woman

For a moment, Ashlynn sat stiffly in Nyrielle's tight embrace, stunned by the powerful vampire's words. The seed of witchcraft she was growing beside her heart had been there for several months now. She placed it there not long after Heila completed her trials so that she could take the time to nurture this seed properly, without subjecting its recipient to the added strain that came from attempting to receive a seed from an Ancient Tree. 

The seed had been there for so long, in fact, that Ashlynn herself barely thought about it. She showered it with her own energy and strength in the same way that she watered her herb garden in the Briar of her vegetable garden at Blackwell Manor. It was something simple and routine that she did with little thought.