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- Author: M. K. Browning
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The Spell
Losing a loved one to death is terrible. Bringing them back has other
assorted issues. And when it’s your own flesh and blood… well,
necromancy has limits.
Alyssa Chance Oh tensed against the problems before her. She
stood in her family’s log house in her bedroom, turning about once
or twice, trying to assess things.
The house stood like a pinprick on the river’s edge. A mere
smudge in the grand scheme of the whole of Daegries. But it was her
entire world, the only home that ever maered. And her family,
grown even smaller recently, needed her to take charge.
Alyssa sighed, staring at items strewn on her bedroom floor.
She’d been up early, studying spells, trying to figure out what wasn’t
working. “Why do I have to jump up and down on the bed? This
incantation sounds like something a fool would say.”
Alyssa had tried the spell twice, spouting different words and
performing various actions as she saw fit, but nothing had
happened. No flash of light, no smell of sulfur… no risen
grandfather. Nothing. And she desperately wanted her grandfather
back on this side of the dirt.
She sat absently flicking at the petals of a sundew plant siing on
the scuffed wooden desk. Magik usually kicked in at sixteen, and her
birthday had been a few months ago. But apparently, that wasn’t a
sure-fire win at spell casting.
Bierly eyeing the thick book she’d been using for the spell,
Alyssa grabbed it, and her deep blue eyes darted back and forth over
the text wrien in tiny script. “I have to get this done.”
The book had been filched from the personal library of her late
grandfather, Pappy Oh, a mage of considerable renown in their
region of the Lesser Daegries, a small rural town called Mudden.
Unwanted fame clouded his name because of journeys he’d made
outside of the Lesser Daegries. Journeys that always made
townspeople whisper behind their hands. They said normal folk
didn’t take off from their family and stay gone for long periods. It
just wasn’t done. But in Alyssa’s family it was done and done often.
And being witnessed in the company of mysterious strangers
didn’t help maers, either. True enough, mages often kept strange
company. But Pappy Oh entertained folks that caused women to
yank their children inside their homes and lock the door. Strange
folks dressed in cloaks and hoods that came in the dark of night and
left the same way. These happenings brought a lot of fear to
townsfolk, and they talked about it endlessly.
Probably why Alyssa’s family had moved closer to the river and
farther from town.
Maybe now that Pappy lay on the other side, they would hush
their gossiping. She’d find a way to keep him hidden. If I could only
get this spell to work…
With a heavy sigh, Alyssa ran her fingers down the illuminated
text on the taered spine of the book.
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