'That's right, magic. Don't you believe me?'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThE3n3bBUo
'I'm sorry miss, but...'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTazLoSId6
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?'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABP0Ub5nWC
Stunned, the officer could barely manage a nod.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqyKF1NYBM
What was I thinking? The police can't help with this. I have to do this on my own.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAQH1t12BX
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMWjuopupV
Where would she find them? No doubt they would have vacated their hideout, so... WestGo.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNyMlwLbF1
If she ran, it'd take her almost 20 minutes to get there.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnB0rYlGz1z
Christine looked at the parked cars in the street. She had a better idea.
Dammit!615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzz8vnDzprQ
Hughes and the others were already at the WestGo office building. As the screaming began, Christine realized that the fire had started.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudOQ7ifNB2
'Hughes! Stop it now! Thousands of people work in there!'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeE5il9a3CL
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFSJ2LI3Oa
Hughes smiled. The High Priestess was powerful, no doubt, but all of Floor Twelve Minus could tire her out.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMADqIzj1h
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGbHkAmCAi
'STOP IT!' She yelled, straining to keep all the cars down.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3J2viDOOb
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiwGz5laYe
'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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDmYG80dqz
'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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oiuOEHxS1
'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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKfF4kiOUW
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZDnRo3pkQ
'Give it up, Hughes. I'm not going to let you kill them.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7chUd2AWqj
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.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhKZzYzKnZ
'There's no need to play anymore games.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLShXAJaPZ
'Magic is not a game. The Bind is not a game.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaV26QfXoZ
'The Bind?'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ07iWd8ms
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.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vDd3QJfTT
'Oh my god, no...' The crackle-crackle-crackle of the flames, all the screaming...615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVN8OTyQCY
'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.'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolUXiDdXKE
'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...615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ519DeYF8PU
'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...615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCZbWB9kQG
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhp9btEJOv
'No...' A thousand three hundred and seventy two lives. More than what was needed. The Bind was held, the Void was satisfied.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtQI6DlF6Q
Hughes' barking laughter could still be heard even as the collapse finished, a mountainous pile of burning rubble, dust, and bodies.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnJ8JZp0aK
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.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwXccERydR
Christine closed her eyes, and she, too, collapsed onto her knees, tears carving tracks into the dust and grit on her face.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgWa2YhoUB
'Sir, ma'am, are you two alright...'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfcmOA35FB
'Come with us please, sir, ma'am...'615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH0x4A8fi4
Tears and laughter.615Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtDjMjnzuk
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