Chapter 122. No One Can Stop Me

*Isla*

“What happened to Aunt Mary?” I ask. “Did she die?”

“She did die,” my mom says, but quickly enough, she adds, “but then she came right back to life.”

“And… she had powers,” my father tells me. “That became the true problem.”

“Powers?” I ask. “What sort of powers?”

“Your aunt was originally from an island near Maatua. It was a small island, a peaceful island, but that wasn’t because of how kind the people there were. No, it was because many of them had magic. People were afraid to mess with the inhabitants of KiloKilo because it never ended well for anyone who crossed them.”

“Many mages and wizards lived there,” my father says, and my forehead wrinkles into a crease. I hadn’t known that mages and wizards were real. “They were also shifters.”

“So your aunt already had some powers,” Mom continues. “Nothing too powerful. Just a bit of clairvoyance, not enough to help her predict her death, some ability to ward off evil spirits–except for