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     Jacob watched as the six lovely ladies shouted and danced with joy in the meadow filled with wild flowers and butterflies. He could hear Haley laugh as her sisters swung her up and around.The earlier explorers had named this large area Mariposa because of all the butterflies. The meadow was surrounded by tall granite cliffs and huge Sequoia trees. A stream rushed between the cliffs and into a deep blue pool.     The O'Byrne sisters were alive with magic. They craved a home were magic could thrive and they could live in peace. They missed their old home and were tired of the travel, tired of not finding a place where they could be free to practice the gifts born to them.     The advertisements concerning the Americas were wrong. They found that America wasn't a place founded on religious freedom. It was a place where non-conformity was met with suspicion, and sometimes even imprisonment, torture, and death.     Barely escaping from their tormentors on the East coast, they fled to the West. With the help of Jacob Adair, they managed to travel across the continent to this land, and found this special valley—the valley of butterflies.     Again the persecution of being different had begun, but this time it was different—they were different. They were stronger, wiser, and were great friends with the Miwok people—natives to the area. The sisters had great magic and were honored amongst the Miwok's.     They had built a fine house, and were happily living on the land, when a vision shattered their joy. Rhoswen, the forth sister, was scrying for a lost lamb. The serene search was shattered by visions of war between the whites and the Miwok's. She saw their house in flames—angry people—blood—and death.Jacob and the sisters gathered together their personal belongings, their food and animals, and departed to a valley within the walls of the mountains.      They told the Miwok people of the upcoming wars, of the massacre to come. Jacob, Kellan, Vevila, and Kane stayed with the Miwok people to assist and help them to survive in the upheaval to come—for war would come.