The Mage's Heart
Tales teach us to seek out good-witches to tend to sore teeth or to help with difficult births, and diviners to foretell the weather, but to fear sorcerers or sorceresses who prey upon the unwary, sprites who blight the crops, and mermaids who drown sailors.
Most of all, the tales teach us to fear the Fae with their deceptive beauty, costly altruism, and cruel punishments.
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“That is not my child,” my mother’s denial was final and broken. “It’s a changeling.”
The maids had let the fire die down to embers, distracted by the demands of a new baby upon their time, and the cold had seeped into the gloomy room, the dark wood of the furnishings and the floor fading into shadow, and the fragile lig
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