'That's right, magic. Don't you believe me?'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5PCky3Noz
'I'm sorry miss, but...'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwtwrDVeOZ
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?'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYbBUh2I3z
Stunned, the officer could barely manage a nod.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjrBlt8Aj7
What was I thinking? The police can't help with this. I have to do this on my own.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXx5lf5MyP
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡns7YWDwDpI
Where would she find them? No doubt they would have vacated their hideout, so... WestGo.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLBQ6umXj0
If she ran, it'd take her almost 20 minutes to get there.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYlK7hRZHf
Christine looked at the parked cars in the street. She had a better idea.
Dammit!685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpxwFpZcGt
Hughes and the others were already at the WestGo office building. As the screaming began, Christine realized that the fire had started.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lN7abpPlN
'Hughes! Stop it now! Thousands of people work in there!'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSJ9hqGtmf
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0V9nhlsVgM
Hughes smiled. The High Priestess was powerful, no doubt, but all of Floor Twelve Minus could tire her out.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmBQK2jKoO
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQOqaZ2q9y
'STOP IT!' She yelled, straining to keep all the cars down.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsk4lDFCSl
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6STRLkZX3L
'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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3zF2574Bi
'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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xoYtiHCRj
'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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxHnNEi70B
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pxqjYsFPM
'Give it up, Hughes. I'm not going to let you kill them.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pVdvQ1SLV
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.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcxwt4Kkcu
'There's no need to play anymore games.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lF91i34k6
'Magic is not a game. The Bind is not a game.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlxDoWkgQc
'The Bind?'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyKsYRKwrY
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.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5qnLjn2me
'Oh my god, no...' The crackle-crackle-crackle of the flames, all the screaming...685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YKmWSckBd
'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.'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0Fdvu3KJx
'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...685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe09FG3STa3
'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...685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlGTWfJD34
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwGIycfNuC
'No...' A thousand three hundred and seventy two lives. More than what was needed. The Bind was held, the Void was satisfied.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxeUSkcPK7
Hughes' barking laughter could still be heard even as the collapse finished, a mountainous pile of burning rubble, dust, and bodies.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3YORYt4bx
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.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsNZq531om
Christine closed her eyes, and she, too, collapsed onto her knees, tears carving tracks into the dust and grit on her face.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksS1h3ehTV
'Sir, ma'am, are you two alright...'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡob9Za1V0hw
'Come with us please, sir, ma'am...'685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1r51Ymh9S
Tears and laughter.685Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChUfS45T4S
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