Prologue 

And so the quest beings

Narca

I had been cursed by the Lady of the Lake. Given as the sacrifice to the goddess for a good harvest. I have a mission to complete a vision of a peaceful land for magic. Albion, she said. I was some piece of this cosmic plan along with the son of the most ruthless magic hater, Arthur Pendragon and some great sorcerer Merlin. Yet I was no one, someone not even good enough to keep as a child. The little magic that runs through me is nothing compared to the sorcerer Merlin. What could I possibly do to add to the great quest to Albion?

Nothing. I don’t want a peaceful land of magic. Maybe, I don’t have to do it. Maybe I can give this curse to someone, no something. I must find something to put this in. I will destroy magic and anyone who believes it to be good. There will be no magic, I will be more feared than the Great Uther Pendragon. I will truly rid the world of magic. Even the Gods will fear me. Narcissus the Ender of the Magic Realm. 

A little sapling already half dead is the perfect place for a curse. I pull it from the ground. I use my magic, it flows sending the curse to the sapling. So beautiful, the relief, no longer the weight of the curse holding me down. Something happens, the sapling grows heavy, I can’t stop. The petals begin to toughen and expand into limbs. Stem forming the veins flowing from the roots which are forming a heart. I couldn't stop because the little flower was taking hold. It was no longer a flower but a person. A girl almost like my reflection but somehow different not broken by the world.

I’m released by it. I study it, how do I kill it? Can I kill it? As if it wanted to ensure I knew it was alive, it breathed. I wonder if I could simply stab it just like you would any human or if the magic that created it would protect it from a moral blade. I know this magic is far beyond my own, something older, something other worldly. It wakes, the ethereal green eyes stare at me. It moves as if it’s air, not stirring the world. As if it was a ghost and just like that it was gone. No chance to stop it or even ask it a question.