Finding Your Place in the Circle: The Warmth of Sisterhood
Consider this...
Last night, I sat by my kitchen window, a steaming cup of herbal tea warming my hands as I watched twilight settle over the garden. The day's work was done, the house quiet except for the gentle ticking of the clock in the hallway. It was in this peaceful moment that I found myself thinking of you, dear reader, and what I hope you'll discover in the pages of the Sisters' letters.
We All Have a Little Wardenguard Within Us
You know those moments when you've just known something without being told? When you've felt the urge to call a friend, only to discover she needed to hear your voice that very day? When you've sensed a storm coming before the clouds gathered? When you've dreamed of someone you haven't thought of in years, then bumped into them the next day?
That's your Wardenguard intuition speaking. We all have it, though some of us have forgotten how to listen.
The Sisters in these pages might seem extraordinary-even peculiar- at first. Their lives and their gifts might appear extraordinary. But strip away the quirks and oddities and you'll find women and support each other through life's inevitable challenges—just like we do. Yet, always with an eye to the supernatural and the unseen forces.
The Kitchen Table Connection
I imagine the Sisters, separated by distance but connected through their letters, each sitting at their own kitchen table. Nyla with her tea steeped from desert herbs. Margaret with a glass of whiskey after a long day tending her mountain home. Thessaly surrounded by open books and scribbled notes. Ione analyzing the world with sharp precision and a few chemicals. Ivy in her kitchen kneading spell-infused dough for nurturing.
How many times have you sat at your own table, pen in hand, pouring your heart onto paper? Or perhaps in today's world, typing your thoughts to someone who understands you without explanation?
That's the Wardenguard way of sisterhood—creating connection across distance, sharing wisdom that matters, warning those we care about of approaching storms, keeping confidences that need protection.
The Hand Extended Through Time
There's a moment in Volume 1 where Ivy mentions how her aunt once taught her to breathe properly while crafting—not just to avoid fatigue, but to channel energy more effectively. It's such a simple thing, really. The kind of practical wisdom grandmothers have passed to mothers, mothers to daughters, friends to friends, throughout history.
How many such teachings have you received? How many have you shared?
The whispered remedies for healing. The quiet warnings about who could be trusted. The recipes that nourish more than just the body. The stories that explain without explaining directly - never telling or lecturing, but sharing insights?
This is how women have protected each other when direct speech was dangerous. This is how we've preserved what matters through centuries of challenge. We write coded letters in a language only we can understand.
Your Place in the Circle
My deepest hope isn't that you'll see the Sisters as distant, magical beings to admire from afar. It's that you'll recognize yourself in them—in their doubts and triumphs, in their misunderstandings and reconciliations, in their struggles to balance tradition with necessary change.
I hope you'll close the book and think, "I would have stood beside them. I would have warned them of danger. I would have kept their secrets safe. I want a Wardenguard as a Sister.”
Because when you recognize that connection, something beautiful happens. You might find yourself sharing these stories with someone else—a friend over coffee, a daughter curious about her heritage, a colleague who needs reassurance that her intuition isn't foolish.
And in that sharing, the circle widens. One more voice joins the quiet conversation that has sustained women through generations. One more heart carries forward the legacy of seeing beyond the surface of things.
This is how we truly become Sisters in the Wardenguard way—not through extraordinary gifts, but through the extraordinary power of recognition, protection, and preservation.
The kettle's boiling. The cup is waiting. Will you join us at the table?
P.S. A clue to finding a Sister: True Sisters always find a way forward together.
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