"You have to tell everything about this family rather than making wait to find out on my own. Why would the witch need to eat your heart? Why couldn’t your father have used soone else instead of killing his own daughter? Please tell everything," Regina begged the woman. She had been planning to find out secrets about Minnie but didn’t expect there were other family mbers with these kinds of secrets.
Regina was starting to feel a little unsure of whether she should attempt to own this house rather than run away. These people who call each other family have no problem killing one another for their own gain.
"I..." Esralda paused, deciding Regina was right. She hoped that her great-granddaughter would be able to free her soul from this house. She no longer wanted to be in a ho that caused so much misery. "I have soplace to take you."
Regina watched Esralda stand up and walk through the door. For a mont, she forgot she was talking to a ghost. Regina sat up from the floor and opened the door to follow after Esralda. She had to be careful because if any of the maids spot her, they’ll report it either to Minnie or Rachel.
She quietly followed Esralda to the stairs leading down to the main floor and out through the front door. Regina had to occasionally hide as guards and a few servants still up were walking around. Esralda helped with warning her when soone was coming. "Question, why is it that only I can see you? Samuel didn’t see you that day in the garden? Am I dead? Did Minnie get to ?"
Esralda chuckled, finding Regina’s words to be thankful. She wondered how the young girl managed to have this kind of personality considering the people she grew up around. "You are not dead dear, just special. Minnie won’t do anything to you yet because she is not sure."
"Special? Special like how? I an, I know I am special. Not everyone can be blessed with the looks I have and the personality," Regina jokingly flipped her hair.
"You are funny. I wish I had the chance to hold you as a baby and watch you grow up even if I would only be able to witness a tiny bit of it. Do you rember I told you that we stole this ho from the original Hamiltons?" When Regina nodded Esralda continued to explain, "Our relatives were looking for a way to blend in the town instead of continuing to hide. They wanted a family with influence and wealth so they could do as they please."
"For so reason, I feel like you are trying to say we are special like how Aurora is special. You know, with her not being human."
"So mbers of our family are human because our relatives married humans and had children with them. However, our family lineage has always been witches," Esralda said. It was a dark secret kept from humans for many years. They had no idea that the family they spoke so highly of consisted of witches.
"Witches?!" Regina exclaid, stopping dead in her tracks. How on earth could her family be witches? She never suspected anything out of the ordinary but then again, they had hidden Aurora for a long ti.
" As the years passed by, the witch side decreased because they partnered with humans and their children ended up being more human than a witch. To keep the witch’s blood strong, occasionally they would marry a witch. That is why my father married off to my husband. I had surprisingly been born with more witch traits than humans and that was why my father thought the Hamilton genes would be saved if I married a witcher."
As they walked to their destination Esralda continued to say, "It didn’t turn out how he wanted because Minnie was more human than a witch. And..." she choked up as she rembered the daunting mory. "My other daughter was more of a witch than Minnie but not like what my father wanted."
"Daughter?" Regina’s eyes widened at the news. She never heard anyone speak of Minnie having a sister. "What happened to your daughter? I never heard of her."
"My daughters were twins. My husband took them from the mont they were born and only returned with Minnie. I begged him to tell where my other child was but he never told . I don’t know if it was mother’s intuition but I felt like she was there, in this house but I never knew where. It was only when I died and I road the house that I found a tiny place where they had her locked away like a prisoner."
"I don’t understand. Why would they do that if they wanted the family to have more witches?" It didn’t make any sense to Regina. They were doing the opposite of what they wanted.
"Around the ti I gave birth to my children is when I t Aurora. The first person in my life I felt didn’t want to use . Little did I know my father and husband had started plotting. Aurora belonged to the goddess Artemis and it would require a strong witch plus sacrifices to place a spell on her. The witch they used must not have been strong enough so like what they did with , they took my daughter’s heart and fed it to the witch."
"They kept her locked away as a backup in case they needed the heart of a witch? Our family is seriously ssed up. I can’t wrap my mind around the things you are telling . Was killing their own flesh and blood worth it in the end?" Regina beca more furious than she was before.
"No offense but I am so glad I never got to et your husband. Just dealing with Minnie alone is hard enough. Minnie and I aren’t seeing eye to eye but I could imagine how she would feel finding out her grandfather killed her sister she never knew."
"Actually, my father was dead when it ca ti for them to take my daughter’s heart. My heart was used the first ti they placed the spell on Aurora but they had planned on using my baby as the sacrifice. I was ant to be alive making more witch children for them. Since I wanted to help Aurora so much, they killed . They were warned the spell on Aurora wouldn’t last and so when she started to wake up, they killed my daughter they had been raising like an animal," said Esralda.
She wished her soul had gone to the other world so she wouldn’t have been able to hear all of these things and watch her daughter suffer. "My husband was the one to kill our child and right next to him was Minnie showing no remorse for her sister. It must be my fault Minnie turned out that way. I shouldn’t have died leaving her there with my family when I knew the kind of people they were."
"I’m so sorry for the things you went through Esralda. No wonder you are still trapped here. When you say that Minnie doesn’t know if I am special yet, does that an there is a possibility I might be more of a witch than human?" Regina asked the burning question stuck in her mind. She was hoping she wasn’t what Minnie wanted and would share the sa fate as Esralda and her daughter.
"I’m afraid so. It is why you are the only one who can see . Do not be afraid chil-"
"Don’t be afraid?" Regina repeated the words looking at the woman like she was crazy. "You just told they took your daughter’s heart because she was a witch and they needed it. Now I am told I am a witch. Of course, I am afraid that I will share the sa fate as you and your daughter. I do not want to die young. Especially at the hands of my family. I should have left with Aurora. Who was I kidding to try and beco the head of this house."
"I said do not be afraid because Minnie wants to train whoever is a witch between you and Samuel to beco stronger. Your witch side has been dominant for all your life which is why the witch they have brought to check you did not recognize you as one. A witch can always tell its fellow sisters apart from other creatures but you are special. I am certain you can take over this house and make it better. If you don’t, this will keep happening," Esralda pointed out in a distance where n were bringing children onto the property.
"What is happening? Where are those children going?" Regina looked to Esralda for an answer. People she had never seen before were taking children onto the property through the back gate of their ho. She wasn’t surprised to see Duncan there seemingly inspecting everything. She watched as the n led the children in the direction of the mountain behind their ho after being seen by Duncan.
"Those are the sacrifices."
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