by Taki Drake
“Stop! Stop! You must stop! Stupid girl!” Stupid him. I was committed and had to finish the spell, even he knew that.
As I said the last word, a bright flash of light lit the field up and I heard a sound behind me that was a cross between a grunt and a screech. “Uh, oh.”
I spun around just in time to see what looked like a large rabbit hop by. The animal was twice the size of a normal rabbit but now had antlers.
“What did you do? That is not the spell I gave you!” The new Council teacher was beyond mad. His face was inflamed and fire was spitting from his eyes.
“Sir, it is. See!” I held out the spell to him. He grabbed it from my hands and began checking it line by line.
“What is this notation right here?”
I peered at the line halfway through. “It looks like the word verða.”
“It’s not. It’s the wrong tense. It needs to be umskipti. I didn’t write it that way. Why is it on here?” He thrust the paperwork back at me.
“Sir, I copied it exactly from your notes.”
“I do not make mistakes! You are trying to blame this disaster on me and I won’t have it!” He stormed away, ranting to the heavens. I stared at the paper in my hands. We used old Norse as a modern magical language for all our spells. The word ‘change’ actually has five different spellings in old Norse. I guess now I know what happens when I use the wrong one.
“You just broke another one, Agatha!”
“How? I don’t see what it is I did wrong! He just walked off.”
“Uh, did you see the creature a minute ago?”
“Yeah it looked like a rabbit or something.”
“You made another one, Agatha. That used to be a rabbit and a deer.”
That horrified me. Those poor creatures. Somehow my use of the wrong word for ‘change’ made my magic modify those beautiful creatures. “I guess he is going to report me...”
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This book is a work of fiction, All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Sometimes both.
No actual Unicorns, Demons, Fae, Dragons, Cats, Hawks, Witches, or Gods were harmed in the making of this book. Promise.
Copyright © 2017 T S Paul
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.
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Great Big Thanks to :
Developmental Editing by Diane Velasquez and Dorene Johnson AKA the (real) D’s.
Final Editing by Kat Lind, The Dragon Lady
All writing was done on Scrivener and Google Docs
Special thanks to my wife Heather who keeps me grounded and to Merlin the Cat, we are his minions and to all the members of Phoenix prime.