'...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?'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ415SL16Aut
'That's right. And then I came back.'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyv6TeB2BjJ
'What was it like?'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFgx5La61m
'Death? The eternal Void?'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXDbsHG14G
'The other side.'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVqLomh0Sb
'...It was beautiful.'
It was strange, then, that it was only when the world became aware of magic that it finally disappeared.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3rT1HHmnT
The chain of High Priestesses was broken - the Void no longer had a single master to answer to, and Floor Twelve Minus became powerless.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWjIUdTLgW
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.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1yv05J11w
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.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLWGVeuMvs
Apart from one.
'Come on, daddy, one more trick!'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjW7t4wBBo
'Alright, alright, Christine.' Hughes laughed gently. 'Take a look in these cups. See that they're all empty...'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UJjLmz7B1
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.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFypqaUOEI
'What's in this cup?'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieVG9b5UvN
Christine giggled. 'It's empty!'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPe0voEE4P
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.'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkFlhyIwps
The sun was setting on the long summer day, and he smiled as he set the child down in her bed.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmELZtx7sy0
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.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBzfCDcV3S
He had always believed that magic was destructive. The Bind ensured it. People died for their petty tricks.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGVq1oV8Jl
But that woman - she had died to save others with magic.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPsATuI9wg
She had sacrificed herself.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyanlmKLyWv
Holding that dress in his hands, Hughes had cried for a reason, that then, he did not understand.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj93rRc9Mrr
'Come now, Percy. Let's enjoy the last of the light.'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeg2nSXWkc1
'Comin', Maddy.'475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIurFOJl08q
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.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSHBCDpAAn
'Every day, it gets me. Just how beautiful it is.' Maddy wraps her arm around Hughes' shoulders and holds him close.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZwNvfFr9I
'It's quite the sight, isn't it.' He sighed gently, holding her even tighter next to his body.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquELLLByQ5
He never tried magic again, after. He didn't even know that his powers had vanished completely.475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4ZhR9OL9J
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 -475Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXhgKlx9fn
Love was the most powerful magic of them all.
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