“Because they didn’t agree with you?” Colby disputed daringly.
Fazendiin ignored his son’s comment, inhaling deeply before speaking again.
“Your sister would not actually die,” he clarified, “she’d just be, what do the humans call it... brain dead.”
“Is that all Meghan is to you? A carcass to feed magic back into the world,” Colby roared in disgust at his father’s ability to write off her life so easily.
“What do you care?” asked Fazendiin. “She is nothing to you. She is nothing compared to what I offer you!” He stopped for a moment as if unable to understand why his son was being so difficult. “Colby, I gave you life and unlimited power. The ability to have anything you could possibly imagine. An endless lifetime of everything your heart desires.”
“Why did you pick me?” asked Colby. “Why not Meghan, or Colin even? Was it just, reach in and grab one of us? And I just happened to be the lucky winner?”
“I picked you at birth,” his father informed him. “I knew the moment I looked into your eyes that you were the only one with the strength to lead us into the world I wanted to create. I. Chose. You.”
“I still don’t understand my part in all of this. Why do you need me? You’re already powerful and feared by everyone.”
“Yes, this is true. But I am not naive enough to believe that I will live forever. But I will see my world brought to life, and you, Colby, my chosen son, my legacy, are meant to be its King. You cannot be killed. You cannot be overthrown. You are invincible. You. Are. Forever.”
Colby looked away from his father.
It was the first time in weeks he felt the need to let the Magicante take over. He had always been so certain. So sure. Now, doubts threatened to overwhelm him.
He had been groomed to be a king.
No, not a king.
The King!
He did not want to be on the losing side.
But could he sacrifice his sister to be on the winning side? Could he sacrifice the entire world to be on the winning side?
His father had lied to him about almost everything. Could he trust that his father was telling him the complete truth now?
Fazendiin grew impatient and strode into the field stretching his arms out wide, displaying his handiwork.
“Did I choose wrong when I picked you?” he questioned bluntly. “Your entire future stands in front of you. An endless life with endless possibilities. Or it stands behind you in a world about to die.”
Colby looked upon his father with horrified disbelief.
Did he expect him to choose, right this minute?
A long blade appeared in his father’s hands. He leaned over, placing it underneath the throat of the closest Mazuruk.
“The new world is coming,” he declared. “Make your choice.”
MAGICANTE SAYS:
Once upon a quest so dreary,
while I write so tense and weary,
over my dark heart pounding lore,
I sit in my chair, nodding and scheming,
and suddenly there came a gentle knocking.
Knocking at my office door.
"'Tis the real world," I grumbled, aghast,
knocking, knocking, at my office door.
Only reality and nothing more.
But who needs the real world at their door?
Knocking, knocking, forever more.
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Fated Volume One: The Book, The Witches, and The Doorway
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