Bewitched
But as with all things, words became weapons, and soon even the common people were drawn in.
My mother used to tell me bedtime stories about that era, though sometimes I wondered if they were truly stories or fragments of something she wanted me to believe. One in particular has never left me: a war between witches and the people of the Four Courts. I don’t remember all the details—her voice was always soft at that hour, more lull than history—but I remember the sense of it. That there was once magic in this land, fierce and alive. That it had been stolen, stripped away in a single blinding moment. I never asked whether it was true. Perhaps I didn’t want to know. Yet lately I find myself won
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