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You've kindly been using your magic to heal people, but discover that in the long term it's killing them...

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The Price of Power

"But
 I don’t understand? You—you said it would help!" Brynn's voice breaks. Her voice is shaking. She stands up and bangs her hands flat against the dark oak table, standing out in the white room that looks more like a mental asylum than an office. But that's all it really is—an asylum.


"YOU PROMISED! YOU PROMISED IT WOULD HELP!" she screams furiously, accusation and hurt reflecting in her dark ...

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The Killing Magic

*Burrrr* the wind blew on a cold winter night, Eve walked around as it was snowing lightly. The temperature was getting colder and animals began to highbernate.


Eve looked to her side, saw a woman crying on the ground with frost bite and her hand was falling off. “HELP US!” A boy said holding the woman. “Here let me help!” Eve said in a calm tone. *Eve began to use her healing powers to heal the...

Death Cure

“Please, you’re the only one who can help!” The distressed young woman looks at me with helpless eyes. “I can’t lose him! Please!” She begs, tears welling in her eyes.

“I
 I can’t.” I say, my voice trailing off as I try to cut off the emotion slipping through the expression on my face.

The woman looks confused and hurt at the same time. “He’s dying. I can’t lose him! You’re the only one who can ...

To Save One Is To Ruin Many

Her family awaits me, and I gladly stride across the dim room towards them. “She seems to be doing well, she’s healed.” _For now._


Relief washes over their faces, their gasps fill the small room. Another one freed from the weight of the plague. Another one able to continue their once normal life. And somehow, I helped them return to who they once were.


I pulled them back from death’s grasping a...

Time Kills

“You bitch!” I heard someone scream as I walked down the street. A pair of hands met with my back before I was shoved to the ground. “You ruined my life!” He shouted again as I rolled onto my back.


Even with his sunken eyes, his pale skin, and his frail body, I knew who he was.


“I helped you! You were about to die!” I yelled back, pushing up to my feet.


“Look at me now! Do I look like I’m heale...

The Brew

**Monday**: I’ve always been a brewist. They say my lattes have magical healing powers. Yeah right. That I must be some kind of _witch. _Ridiculous; I mean, honestly if I really had healing powers, I would quit my job. But I can’t.

I would say my lattes have more of a malignant power than that. The power to keep you awake, like,24 hours; No, seriously. I get customers all the time coming in who l...

Recompense Through Fire

Too often confused, the desire for placement and the love for others, many lack the rational thought to distinguish the two oppositions in favor of justification. I was once the later, being that I too believed that most formidable of lies, that I was doing good on the precepts that I, like the work I was doing, was good. Years spent I amidst such conceptions, loosing a battle of wits that I was t...

A Spell

She breaks into my room «Marco died! You hear me?? He died!»


I shock and quickly stand from my couch «What? How? Why?!» I ask quickly, starting to panic. He was okay just two weeks ago.


Her eyes water, and she slowly comes closer «Darling...» She tries to catch my hand, but I step back.


«What? Luna, what? Tell me!» I beg her as her jaws trembles and face gets redder.


«Your magic...» her voice ...

Medicine Girl

Long long ago, there is a big village located east of the Larzika river and west of the Machanan Mountain in the kingdom of Lois. The people there were all ordinary humans and they have been there for a long long time. Their neighbor is the Unan tribe, they are mysterious and kept to themselves. They had no contact for hundreds of years until one day a virus spread in the village causing many peop...

Bargains

Since that day, I have never stayed long in one place.


I helped people, when I could.


Most denounced me as a witch.


Witch was apt, I supposed, I had made a deal with the Other, had I not?


Some time ago, my sister had been ill. She would have died if nature had been allowed to run its course. In this time, I prayed again and again, but received no answer. In desperation, I reached to the Other...

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