The Youngest Mage [Completed]

Epilogue

The cat-girl stood near her new cave. She had dragged the dying body of a child from Sylnaberneath to her cave; the girl had been missing for two days. The girl was a mouse to her, so fun to torture before killing. The cat-girl gutted her and spread her entrails on the ground of her cave. She looked at them intently for a moment. "Ha Mesh! They know I can't go there." She threw the girl's remains into the bushes outside afterwards, like so much trash.

"Well, they will have to come back someday," she said, "and you can bet I'll be waiting." Then she slashed a three-inch deep mark in the bark of a tree. "I will get them all next time, as sure as it rains in the spring, I will get them all." Then she went back into her cave.

In the woods outside a solitary figure all in white, the White Lady, looked into the black heart in the black cave and a single tear washed down her peerless face. "Come back to me daughter," she whispered. "Don't remain evil forever. Reunite with who you truly are."

A bitterness hung in the air until the Mother Blessing picked up the body of the little girl in the bushes and rejuvenated her, and took her by the hand and led her to the outskirts of Sylnaberneath where her parents and several town folk were looking for her. The girl looked around to thank her then, but the White Lady was already gone.
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