Rosie's Bloom
The light shot upward, red and blind, devouring the false circle that had been meant for her.
I stumbled back, clutching my arm where the heat tore through the wards.
For a heartbeat I saw the veiled figure’s outline within the fire then nothing.
Smoke, ash, silence.
The power had turned on itself.
On me.
I tried to breathe, but the air was full of dust and the scent of burned magic.
Somewhere beneath the roar of the sea I heard laughter not human, not kind.
I forced my eyes open and saw it: far across the forest, a silver column rising like dawn.
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