Chapter 21. The Tree of Knowledge

Lin was having an uneasy feeling as he sat waiting for Mia to return. He couldn't sit very long though. He stood up and started patrolling the perimeter. Boshu joined him.

"I don't have a good feeling about this? " Lin confided in Boshu.

"About what? " Boshu asked.

"Mia . I am having a strange feeling about it. " He said.

"Well, if you say so, everything around us right now is strange. What do you think is normal going around here. " Boshu had a practical answer.

Mia on the other hand was trying to make sense of the things she had just seen. She had the opportunity to have a glance at the very core secret of the mer-witches' survival, a mystery well preserved from the outside world. After the extinction of the male population, the mer-witches had no other option than to resort to dark forces for their survival. The dark forces allowed their queen to have one male child at a time. That child would then be cloaked in dark aura so it remains hidden from the rest