Shade held Wei Ge as her eyes reddened from crying, then hesitated for a moment.
"For now, I don't want your Speaker to know I exist. I'll turn into a cat and hide in Miss MacDonald's arms. Your Speaker has seen my transformed form before, so don't let her notice this cat."
As he spoke, Shade turned into a ball of silver light before Wei Ge, then became a Silver Cat even smaller than Little Mia.
Miss MacDonald bent down, and Shade Cat lightly leaped onto her arm. The still-pale young woman unexpectedly felt warmth because of the cat's presence. She stood there without moving, lips pressed together, and no one knew what she was thinking.
After waiting a while longer, Adele, Megan, and Bella were called to Wei Ge's room, where the red-eyed Wei Ge told them about her "nightmare."
That piece of skin had also been brought back by Shade and now lay in a corner of the room. The three Witches wore different expressions after hearing the story, though Adele was actually the only one who had just learned of it.
"Wei Ge, you mean—"
"I want to dig up Father's coffin from the family cemetery. I want to verify my bloodline."
"Wei Ge, is your mother buried in the cemetery as well?"
Megan thought of how Ancestors could fake their deaths. Perhaps they would encounter another such case this time. Wei Ge had thought of that possibility as well, or rather, she was now applying every possible conspiracy theory to her mother.
"Yes. Mother passed away after giving birth to me and was buried there first. When Father passed away, he was buried with her."
The Astley Family had a traditional family cemetery in the area. Its history could be traced back to before Kasonlik was