I almost swallowed my tongue I gasped so deeply, and yet I can't say I was really that surprised, not after all the information we were struggling to process, my sister and I.
"What?" Syd was the first to speak, and I was grateful, perfectly willing to let her take the lead. "You said what?"
"From sorcery, all magicks arose," Max said, soft, mournful. "That is why it is impossible for other magicks to defeat sorcery - they are sourced from the blackness that devours all."
"We evolved," Mabel said, "Max the first of us to understand right from wrong, to develop empathy and understanding. It was he who united and taught us to be worthy of the Creator's gift."
"And it was Mabel," Max said, "who first discovered sorcery didn't have to simply devour, but could trigger the elemental magicks
