The Witch From the Human Realm

Prologue

The Boiling Isles, a continent that lies on top of a massive rotting corpse in a world filled with magic, witches, monsters, and every fantastical thing in between. This world is far more perilous than ours though, from rain that boils to the lack of child safety laws, these are the dangers that plague this world.

However, these dangers are the least of the plights that a young five-year-old boy named Benjamin Blight has to worry about. Instead, he has to worry about whether or not Odalia Blight, his mother, will feel like letting him stay out of his room, or that she'll, titan forbid, smack the shit out of him for daring to look at her wrong.

Ben is the result of an affair that his mother had with a male prostitute who thought condoms paled in comparison to his pull-out game and Odalia was drunk enough to believe him. Now, this wouldn't be a problem for the young boy if the prostitute didn't have a darker complexion which was passed down to Ben, making it evident that he wasn't Alador's, Odalia's husband, kid.

She never aborted him since there was no way that she would get it done with the risk of someone leaking the abortion to the press that it could've been a result of an affair that the very successful woman had with some prostitute. No, it was better in her mind to just hide away in her home for nine months and force Alador to attend conferences and board meetings to avoid the public finding out about the pregnancy.

Nobody outside of the Blight Manor knew of the extra Blight sibling, meaning the only people he could talk to was his older sister by a year, Amity Blight, and his older siblings by three years, Emira and Edric Blight. He was close with his siblings, Amity being the closest since they're the closest in age. They all noticed how their younger brother was being treated and they all felt terrible, but they could do a thing since all of their attempts to tell someone were quickly silenced by Odalia, or brushed off as the crazy imagination of a child.

Ben had learned a basic invisibility spell from Edric and Emira, who didn't want their brother to not know any magic because what kind of kid on the Boiling Isles doesn't learn any magic of some shape or form, not their little brother, that's for sure. Ben was an early bloomer of sorts, as Amity was just there for him, as she hasn't reached the age where she here magic should emerge.

Now, Odalia didn't pay as much attention to Ben outside of when she needed to lock him in his room when there was company over or she just did feel like looking at him. So when the chance to run away from home and never look back arose, he took it. Ben knew that he was going to be leaving his siblings behind, and he considered taking them with him, but he stopped himself, he knew that if his siblings disappeared along with him, Odalia would put way more effort into finding them, than if he were to disappear by himself; therefore, he packed a sack of personal belongings and wrote his siblings a letter, although it was mostly chicken scratch since he's five. Nonetheless, it was something to let his siblings know that he was okay.

He began to look for a place to hide his letter. His Room? No, that would be the first place they look for clues to where he went. Some random crevice in the house? No, someone could still find the letter before them or no one finds it at all. One of their rooms? It would make it easier for them to find him and less likely to lead to him getting caught. He decides it would be best to hide it in one of his siblings' rooms; namely, Amity's room since he would have to pass it on his way out.

Now, all that's left is to run away. Ben casts his spell to make himself invisible before he carefully opens his door and slowly closes it, careful not to let it creek and alert anyone who may be listening. Then, he makes a break for Amity's room so he can drop off his letter. He sneaks into her room, carefully opening the door to her room so he doesn't wake her up. He decides to place his letter on her nightstand, before quickly yet carefully leaving her room to not make any noise so he wouldn't alert his slumbering sister.