'...And on the eight o clock news, we have Sally Heighton live on the premises of what can only be called an otherworldly miracle. The city of Newton watched in amazement earlier this afternoon as the WestGo skyscraper was destroyed by fire, but nothing could have prepared us for what came next...'
'So you died in the fire?'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH28K1MPyu
'That's right. And then I came back.'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyXWsoo38w
'What was it like?'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SQGuQsVqq
'Death? The eternal Void?'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ziDEXnjW2
'The other side.'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUy67qia4f
'...It was beautiful.'
It was strange, then, that it was only when the world became aware of magic that it finally disappeared.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBTL4PnNiA
The chain of High Priestesses was broken - the Void no longer had a single master to answer to, and Floor Twelve Minus became powerless.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuJu9lCzO7
Stanley Gorge, a bumbling policeman, only comprehended the mad woman's report at the station after the event. He had learnt enough to find the hideout of Floor Twelve Minus, and ordered a DNA swab of the premises.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZhpub7Jqv
The manhunt lasted nine months, and eventually every single member of the elusive organization was found and brought to justice, a life sentence in prison.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QkLy6n8tv
Apart from one.
'Come on, daddy, one more trick!'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjXJ5lof7N
'Alright, alright, Christine.' Hughes laughed gently. 'Take a look in these cups. See that they're all empty...'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KOAYmRaTx
Madeleine watched on happily, and took a sip of her tea. She was almost twenty years younger than Percy, but age didn't stop her from falling in love with such a beautiful heart. He never talked about his past, but she knew that she loved him, and their daughter, precious Christine.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHDFp7ij7Z
'What's in this cup?'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6XRBOotEJ
Christine giggled. 'It's empty!'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmk5QWePgaO
Hughes chortled as he lifted up the cup to reveal a little model snowman. He hugged the laughing girl. 'Come on now, time for bed.'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6QYfjpKiH
The sun was setting on the long summer day, and he smiled as he set the child down in her bed.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06nhnW6Fnx
He had changed his name, of course, after that day. Percy Lowe. Something had touched that man very deep inside his cold heart - an act of love.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGKNOVtv7U
He had always believed that magic was destructive. The Bind ensured it. People died for their petty tricks.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QLfLMzxVz
But that woman - she had died to save others with magic.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKsHlORU54
She had sacrificed herself.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlMDIq98L2
Holding that dress in his hands, Hughes had cried for a reason, that then, he did not understand.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmdLIu0YE1
'Come now, Percy. Let's enjoy the last of the light.'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8y0SUknTJc
'Comin', Maddy.'901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddB4DFcamp
He took a seat next to his wife on the steps of the front porch, and watched the dying day on the fields of their farm.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9j5FA6DsbS
'Every day, it gets me. Just how beautiful it is.' Maddy wraps her arm around Hughes' shoulders and holds him close.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkHXvpmoZJ
'It's quite the sight, isn't it.' He sighed gently, holding her even tighter next to his body.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0CP7HQ9lg
He never tried magic again, after. He didn't even know that his powers had vanished completely.901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8clStCobIE
Because he learned, because he knew, from that day till the day he would return to the Void - this day, smelling jasmine tea near husky grasses and swinging to the sparrows cooing in the distance -901Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuFkefVoqf
Love was the most powerful magic of them all.
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