THE WITCH WOUND
They call it the ‘witch wound’.
We were punished you see, broken, slain, for shining too brightly.
So we learned to hide that spark.
We learned to play it down, play dumb, play dead.
And we were taught to fear the light within us,
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand.
But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. W
Wishing you a Happy Adventurer's Full Moon, dear Kindred!
Except below about the Adventurer's Moon, from Moon Elves: "Their Customs and Their Magic" by The Silver Elves (available on Amazon internationally) (art by Asako Eguchi titled "Moon Magic")
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