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MAG 159 - The Last

The Magnus Archives

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The Importance of Family Faith

My mother had five children over her life before my father finally drifted away. It was the sort of childhood that would not be allowed if we didn't have money, but we're an old family with a remarkably direct line of inheritance. I suppose to call myself an only child is technically untrue. Two of my sisters still live, though they disavowed the family and moved far, far away. The other two, my brother Aaron and sister Judith, well, they weren't considerate enough to quietly grow to adulthood and disappear. They were sent away to live their lives with very distant relatives, never to return. To be cut off from one's family is its own very special sort of loneliness

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