Chapter 2: My Autobiography
Well, it is probably best that I tell you a bit about myself before talking about what my mother did. This is a short story about myself. I promise it won't take long.
When I was very young, I was raised by my aunt and mother in the Western Woods, away from the town Sleepy Hollow. We were considered outcasts because of how we practiced witchcraft. My mother's family had been kicked out before I was born and her mother died soon after they were kicked out. So it has been just my aunt, my mother, and myself for a long time now. They taught me much in our cave home, but magic was my primary study. I learned spells, curses, potions, hexes. Any kind of magic and chances are I learned it.
My mother said that she got rid of my father soon after she knew that I would be healthy and survive. She told me to do this someday, too, to keep the Archer line going. But she told me that it was a strictly female line, so if I had any boys, they would have to be rid of. My mother said that she and my father tried three times before I was born. Two were boys, which she quickly "disposed of". She said that the baby before I was born was a girl, but she died soon after birth.
Then there is me. The one that survived. If the same things happen to me and I end up with boys, I will make sure that they have good homes. I won't kill any like I'm pretty sure my mother did. Although I am much like my mother, she is slightly colder and darker than I am.
Now to talk of more present times. Three weeks after my tenth birthday, my mother announced that she was engaged to Baltus Van Tassel. She had told me of her plan already-she had been working at it since I was almost nine years old. My mother shares everything with me. We have an extremely close relationship. Though I can't say that about her and my aunt...they don't get along very well. I'm not too fond of my aunt either, but she is alright.
Well, back to my story. It was the night of my fifteenth birthday, and my mother had brought me to the windmill where she planned to execute her plan. She held the Horseman's head as she began the spell. The spell that would begin her revenge on the household that had cost her and her family so much...