AN: I am still at the beginning of Isle Witch. So yeah. & i dont own any of the characters or anything you recognize. I know in my story i'm saying my character Aislin, wrote the shannara books but you know she didn't she is a fictional person (Duh!)

This takes place when Walker is searching for people to become Druids. He went to the highlands to ask people there. The cottage is in the highlands, in a farm a little ways away from Leah.

"What I have I told you about using magic!!??"Aislin's step dad roared."NOW GET OUT YOU LITTLE WITCH!!"

"NO! I WILL NOT! YOU GET OUT NOBODY HERE WANTS YOU!!!"

"OF COURSE THEY DO-!"Aislin snorted."GET OUT!! NOW!!"

"SHUT UP YOU STUPID, FAT, BALDING DRUNK!!"

"I USED THAT MAGIC TO HEAL MOM & IT WAS YOUR FLAUT SHE GOT HURT!!"

"THATS IT GET OUT YOU WITCH!!" He pick her up & pushed/tossed her outside into the growing darkness.

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Aislin was seething. Her mom, Lyneth, had fallen down the stairs to the cellar getting some more ale for Leander. She broke her leg & was crying for help. Leander walked to the top of the stairs & started yelling for her to get up, that her leg was no broken & that she was a whinny wench that was very lazy.

Her older brother, Yukio were working in the field, her little sister Awen was asleep & her eldest brother Casimir was visiting Leah. Aislin was taking a walk in the woods & was heading back home. She heard the cries of her mother & rushed back.

When she got there her drunken step dad was still yelling at her calling her names. In a fury Aislin shoved him aside with such & he flew 30 feet & hit a tree, he was knocked out. She ignored him & jumped down the stairs with cat like ease.

She reached down & embraced her mother & soothed her. Telling her to relax & everything would be ok, She gave her mom a root that would ease the pain & make her fall asleep.

Aislin Ambrose waited until her mom fell asleep & then put her hands over her mom's wound & closed her eyes. Her hands glowed & she touched Lyneth's leg & it flinched, then relaxed. She held her hand there until the would was healed.

Aislin picked up her mom, started walking up the stairs & looked at her. Lyneth was slight & short, she had slanted eyebrows & pointed ears underneath shoulder length dark auburn hair. Her breathing was slowing & steady, now & not hard like it had been when she was hurt. Aislin put her mother on her bed & sat by her side until she woke up.

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"I hate him why does he even exist?"Aislin was a slight figure with elven features & waist length curly dark auburn hair, fathomless blue eyes & a splash of freckles on her nose & cheaks. She was bearly an adult. She was wearing a white peasent shirt with quarter length sleeves that flared out, shorts & a dark blue cloak. She wore a slender sword at her waist & an ash bow on her back.

She walked down the familiar forest path only she knew, by heart at least. Aislin came to the cottage she built a year ago to get away from her step dad or brothers or any other reason.

Aislin Ambrose paused. she thought she sensed something. A barely noticeable rustle of leaves, that could be mistaken for an over active imagination. It could not be the wind, she thought, I would have felt it. She strained her ears trying to hear it again. Nothing. Maybe I miss heard, Oh well I doubt anyone in the highlands is able to hurt me...unless they caught me off gaurd.She snorted at the thought. As if.

She got to her cottage. It was a small place built of stones stuck together by a solution she found in a plant mixed with another plant. The roof was made well & so was the rest of the house. She had put in a small porch earlier this year. & was currently working on the garden.

Aislin grasped the doorknob, she muttered a word & the door swung open & shut behind her.

Once inside the Elf lit all of the lamps & grabbed a fish she caught earlier today, Aislin cleaned the fish & started cooking it & some of the rice she bought from a travler earlier that week. While the food was cooking, she sat down opened the book she was currently writing a story about all of the Shannara characters playing truth or dare. Her best friend Marlon Leah had taught her the game. She had many books, all of them she wrote. She wanted to write about the adventures of the Ohsmfords & the house of Shannara.

She knock over & broke her glass of ale putting her feet on the table & leaning her chair back thinking. She swore & sat up. Aislin put her hand over then glass & it put itself back together & flew up to her hand. She sighed & poured more into her glass. She went to sit back down & there was a knock at the door. She started & dropped her glass again."COME ON!! Thats the 2nd time in 5 minutes!!"

She sighed & opened the door & gasped. The person who was standing there she recognized at once.

AN: I'm evil! Cliffy!! I hate them too. I will try to update as soon as possible. Hopefully it will be tonight.

Reveiw please!! I LOVE reveiws & I will update sooner with more reviews!

Oodles of Tootles ~Luna~