Helen Lovelace had eventually met Aunt Lindsay, who had become a surrogate mother figure when Helen’s fertility drugged Lupercalia ritual with the fallen angel Azazel had landed her with a quickening belly. Helen’s pregnancy was dangerous. Witches and fallen angels did not often conceive. It took immense power for a witch to birth a child of a fallen angel, and some witches believed that children who were born as such were far more powerful than the rest. Her mother had survived the pregnancy, but had died in a bed of blood, body too weak from supporting a blessed child and had not survived the night.