Originally posted January 2011 in serial format on the JWH Connection fan forum, this story is now posted here as a free download (see options below), as well as offered in print/ebook format in the vignette compilation, Cantrips: Volume #1. A vignette featuring David and Mina of A Witch’s Beauty from the Daughters of Arianne Series. Background: In Mermaid’s Ransom, the third book of the Daughters of Arianne Series, it is revealed to David, an angel in the Prime Legion, that his mate Mina, the powerful sea witch, is pregnant. As he was unaware of this, in this vignette he is swiftly winging home to confront and handle Mina’s volatile feelings about this unexpected change in their lives.