Flashback

Her mother was beside herself. "Oh! You're not hurt are you? What happened?"

"I'm..." Minerva's minds eye flashed back to the moment the coven was broken as she delivered the final, massive, blow to the enemy. "I'm not hurt." She lied. "But we were overrun..." She held on tightly as the floodgates finally had a chance to open. "They're all gone mum. All gone." She sobbed.

"Shh... You're here now. You're safe."

"That's it mum. It's not safe here. Not anymore. There's a friend outside, you need to go with them."

"This evacuation is your doing?"

"Yes, mum, it is."