'That's right, magic. Don't you believe me?'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiO2cuBY6M4
'I'm sorry miss, but...'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFozJ3AenT
In frustration, Christine flung the officer out of his chair. 'That's called magic. They're either going to try to track me down, or launch an attack on the WestGo building. You know the one?'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasBM8tCkTo
Stunned, the officer could barely manage a nod.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxdB0uIJUP
What was I thinking? The police can't help with this. I have to do this on my own.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlb1EGnJzNT
She left the station without another word. I can't just hide. If I stay in the shadows without confronting them, they'll just continue on with their business. I have to take them down.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4MccOF2s3
Where would she find them? No doubt they would have vacated their hideout, so... WestGo.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwNonqe6WQ
If she ran, it'd take her almost 20 minutes to get there.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRE45fkMDx
Christine looked at the parked cars in the street. She had a better idea.
Dammit!662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuYvgjdeVS
Hughes and the others were already at the WestGo office building. As the screaming began, Christine realized that the fire had started.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zT7R1nun1
'Hughes! Stop it now! Thousands of people work in there!'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWTMvId1zK
He had locked the doors of the building. A construction crane in the neighboring street began turning ominously towards the offices, and with a groan, Christine held out a hand to stop it in it's tracks.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59WDaonO7T
Hughes smiled. The High Priestess was powerful, no doubt, but all of Floor Twelve Minus could tire her out.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFwdYCXkjV
One by one, cars began rising into the air, and when the first one was launched into the 26th floor of the building, she realized what they were doing.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7T3nrYhCV
'STOP IT!' She yelled, straining to keep all the cars down.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXtMq2fT2Q
Hughes flung one to Christine - and with a shock, she quickly diverted it away into a small cluster of magicians. But it had served its purpose - her attention had been taken away from the crane, and it began tipping into the building.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUrsbkcQb8
'Don't you dare - ' She shrieked from exertion as she tried to stop the crane from falling, but Floor Twelve Minus added with the force of gravity was too much for her, and she collapsed onto the ground.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsoYiZNz1t
'NO - ' She could do it, she could save them all, she knew she could, and with a scream that drowned out all the ones coming from the building, she rose onto her feet and the crane followed suit with a metallic groan.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXF65AkDoZd
'Hughes! You can't go any further!' But she didn't need to say it - he and the others had been exhausted trying to move such a large object at that altitude.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzntUcTD8Tp
With ragged breaths, Christine sent all the magicians to collapse on the side of the street in a pile, leaving Hughes standing by the base of WestGo.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisIiLWzPhV
'Give it up, Hughes. I'm not going to let you kill them.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtsXaOmBu0
As Hughes fell onto his knees, he let out a scathing laugh. 'You think you've saved them all?' Ignorant bitch. He gave a smug roar. 'You don't know anything about magic, Christine.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLB7qTk6fbz
'There's no need to play anymore games.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUrCXjXv4q
'Magic is not a game. The Bind is not a game.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSs7HEFzcI
'The Bind?'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2Y0kEbw0x
As realization began settling into Christine's face, Hughes laughed again. 'The ancient Bind of magic, Christine. No power comes for free. For every time you draw magic from the Void, you have to give back to it.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zTDmRcTkn
'Oh my god, no...' The crackle-crackle-crackle of the flames, all the screaming...662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmMICWTpZR
'For every spell you cast, a person needs to die by the hands of your bloodline. And it looks like I'm doing it on behalf of us both.'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsp14WeYRgK
'My god, stop it, stop it -' She had forgotten about the fire. The crackle-crackle-crackle as the fire erupted to engulf glass, concrete, and flesh...662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlvtGgRYsD
'No, no, no no no...' She watched in despair as the flames rose, a pillar of fire in the center of the city. She couldn't put it out, there was no magic she could do to stop the crackle-crackle-crackle of the screaming shimmering red of the house fire where her parents burned...662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrkhqalAea
The internal structure of the building had been destroyed - and with a monstrous sound all forty flours of the building began to collapse like a series of vertical dominoes.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aNnUNtZS2
'No...' A thousand three hundred and seventy two lives. More than what was needed. The Bind was held, the Void was satisfied.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bkn2PoCmA
Hughes' barking laughter could still be heard even as the collapse finished, a mountainous pile of burning rubble, dust, and bodies.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBP9EkS0MX
The firefighters, the ambulances, all started arriving, but it was too late, just like it was too late when she was just a little girl - because it was impossible to save them. Her parents had been the price of that little bit of wonder.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZJBDsCtDc
Christine closed her eyes, and she, too, collapsed onto her knees, tears carving tracks into the dust and grit on her face.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XxwijPh4A
'Sir, ma'am, are you two alright...'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejpPRp4U0c
'Come with us please, sir, ma'am...'662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6W9kqLVxTz
Tears and laughter.662Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBSQ4CvLAj
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