Unknown time
Another land
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Florence waited five years for magic to come to her. The village wanted for five years for Florence to finally give up on her unreasonable dream. For five years, Florence had drowned herself in the tales of magic and wishing, hoping that magic is real. Florence hoped for magic to come to life, painting her dreams with her cloudy fantasies.
One day, the day that changed everything, came a mysterious man. He came from the town of Eastwood, somewhere far from this village. He introduced himself as a traveling merchant, a merchant from a land where magic defined their existence. Although the village was suspicious of the man, they welcomed him to the village anyway.
When Florence heard of this, she wanted to trade with the man right away. However, the village forbade the man to trade anything with anyone in the village, in fear of magic consuming the village. That didn't stop Florence.
The man stayed at a small hut nearby the end of the village, nearby the howling, dark forests. The villagers never dare go into the forest or leave the village. Tales of beasts of nature, like wolves and bears, fill everyone's thoughts with terror.
Florence knew of that and she waited until the moon was up in the sky. The sky was dark sprinkled with little white dots splashed across it. There were strong gushes of wind flowing through the air sometimes, but not often. The whole village is cloaked with silence and stillness from its sleep. Night was a strange creature of the unknown, bringing such a perfect time for Florence to sneak out.
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The Wishing Well
FantasyShe heard of stories of magical wishing wells in the land beyond, but those were just merely legends. When her own family abandons her in a town in the middle of nowhere, perhaps those wishing wells were her only hope.
