❝ Even as your light bleeds into shadow, every heartbeat of yours is a spell I swear to guard with my own soul ❞ ↳ Qifrey x Reader In a world where magic is drawn, not born, every spell leaves a mark that cannot always be undone. Among the greatest witches stand and Y/n, two revered teachers bound by years of friendship and a love Qifrey has kept hidden in silence. When Y/n falls victim to a forbidden curse, crimson veins begin consuming her magic and life with each passing day. As every cure fails and time slips away, Qifrey ventures into the darkest secrets of magic, determined to save the woman he loves. How far would he go to save her, if the only way meant embracing the very forbidden magic he had devoted his life to condemning? Or her life was bound to save his? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 WITCH HAT ATELIER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝖸𝖾𝖺𝗋 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖺𝗍: April 2026 𝖤𝗇𝖽𝖾𝖽 𝖺𝗍: 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒: on going ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All images, artwork, and other media featured in this story are not owned by me. They belong to their respective owners, and full credit is given to the original creators.