Chapter 12

'We're all ghosts. We all carry inside us, people who came before us. When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically, We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.'

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"What!?" Rae shouted on what she heard the strange beautiful mermaid utter. "Whose ancestors are you talking about?"

"Yours of course." The beautiful mermaid answered.

"You're mistaking me for someone else, I am from the Witch Kingdom, not a mermaid Kingdom, in fact my grandmother is the queen of witches. I was told your kind were wiped out to close down the Gate of Darkness years ago." Rae said and then remembered her conversation she had with her grandmother about the last mermaid. "Oh, I see that you are the last mermaid my granny had told me about, right?"

The beautiful mermaid shook her head. "No, I have alrea