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“The stones Do you re a rock, the glow You and Fin turned on the others Everything is fuzzy after that I think there was an earthquake”

“It does feel like the earth ”

“What are they?”

Duncan grinned, but her frown kept it fro “The stones are older than ti”

“And they are used to move people from one place to another?”

“Aye”

“A few rocks ht?”

“Aye, they did”

Not quite believing, but not able to explain everything she saw the night before, Tara pushed on “You told ht, and we had to hurry Why?”

He explained again about Grainna being evil

Only this time he told her Grainna would have killed them if they hadn’t left when they did

Tara referred to her as a witch, a ter Grainna in an old and powerless body But when Duncan repeated a rhyins, Tara’s head started to swim

“Back up,” she told hiin’s blood of Druid decent? Grainna thought my ancestors were Druids?

“Aye”

“Druids?” Tara shook her head, “As in ancient people with h “That’s rich Really rich!

My parents are fro e County”

“That may be, lass, but you are of Druid blood,”

Duncan told her with a straight face

“Just because my last name is McAllister, doesn’t mean I’m a Druid Scottish yes, sorated to the states at the turn of the century like so many others No one in my family ever had

powers” She shook her head in disbelief

“Druids are private with their abilities, because they are often misunderstood and feared They keep to their own and hide what they do”

“How is it you know all of this?” Not that she believed any of it

“I am Druid”

This is bullshit!

Then how is it, love, we can read each other’s thoughts?

“I don’t know I can’t believe it’s because I’m a Druid Or that you are”

“You activated the stone last night by your own hand,” he reminded her

“That can be explained Maybe it was the heat of my hand that turned the stone on Anyone could have done it, if that’s the case”

Duncan stood and crossed over to the hearth