The 9 Sisters

In the ages after the fall of the greatest magical beings, in the years when witches have become little more than folklore, a great army moving south ravages a town where nine young women exercise enough wit to avoid becoming spoils of war. Their gambit is buttressed by an old wizard who serves the northern warlord's cause, or perhaps some cause his own. Under his tutelage the false witches become more than witches of old, and perhaps more than even their new master expects of them. And the...