'That's right, magic. Don't you believe me?'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLmb0FVWR8
'I'm sorry miss, but...'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWqFjATxu7
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?'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dPd0z8nd7
Stunned, the officer could barely manage a nod.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOvQaeqsHL
What was I thinking? The police can't help with this. I have to do this on my own.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrOWxcE2DF
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1fftGuzZT
Where would she find them? No doubt they would have vacated their hideout, so... WestGo.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JPqUCxujv
If she ran, it'd take her almost 20 minutes to get there.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtaIbGmLWg
Christine looked at the parked cars in the street. She had a better idea.
Dammit!700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MG9vRHtp4
Hughes and the others were already at the WestGo office building. As the screaming began, Christine realized that the fire had started.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWu4lc7GR6Y
'Hughes! Stop it now! Thousands of people work in there!'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmYSpNHEXI
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP01d827XNG
Hughes smiled. The High Priestess was powerful, no doubt, but all of Floor Twelve Minus could tire her out.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMwYYfIYax
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TDw0R4n2X
'STOP IT!' She yelled, straining to keep all the cars down.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmevHAPhl9
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPNnNjpIvf
'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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGBDmHvsO6
'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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTD6ACFXaKE
'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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdnd6ZTo8p
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB3CHbIV1R
'Give it up, Hughes. I'm not going to let you kill them.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugyCgraUAh
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.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDvBjnEttU
'There's no need to play anymore games.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuxYtRxZG6
'Magic is not a game. The Bind is not a game.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJ8og9rZAT
'The Bind?'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoXykLMdYe
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.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNMKuAIfvq
'Oh my god, no...' The crackle-crackle-crackle of the flames, all the screaming...700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLgsjURglA
'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.'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVhrCe3DMG
'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...700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJJ4a5Drox
'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...700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1D8F4RvdR
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUQUOf4MIr
'No...' A thousand three hundred and seventy two lives. More than what was needed. The Bind was held, the Void was satisfied.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfPGOX9FuF
Hughes' barking laughter could still be heard even as the collapse finished, a mountainous pile of burning rubble, dust, and bodies.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgamjZeoKIR
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.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTYKweEdcW
Christine closed her eyes, and she, too, collapsed onto her knees, tears carving tracks into the dust and grit on her face.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzASsGOrUI
'Sir, ma'am, are you two alright...'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1JoXZFnFy
'Come with us please, sir, ma'am...'700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGethvC9gCg
Tears and laughter.700Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgqOCraN1z
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