From the young ages of one and seven, orphans Sam (Samantha) and Sammy (Samuel) were best friends. It was really just a wholesome friendship. Well, until, four years later, Sammy was getting adopted...
The promise they made wasn't honest on Sam's part. The promise to someday come to wherever Sammy was and make it home by being there was all to encourage him.
Though, the kid took it a little to seriously.
Seven years later, they meet again. Sammy, with a few new magical skills, home in the middle of the woods, and a personality of a six year old despite his twelve years of age, having spent years waiting for Sam to find him as she promised; and Sam, just trying to deal with the new reality of magic, an old friend, figure out how three sentences can ruin a kid's life seven years later, and try to get home before college next month.
Welcome to a real story, my story, about how mundane things you do when you're seven can ruin your chance at the normal life you've always desired.
(minor cursing, violence, etc. In later chapters)
Lian snuck out of the imperial palace and exposed the village healer to be a fraud and a devil-worshipper. Cursed by the spurned fire god, Huogwai, and disgraced and cast out by the royal family, Lian set out with her manservant Emiru to the kingdom of fire to rid her of the curse of uncontrollable flames for a chance to regain her claim to the throne. But being a fire disciple meant she was a practitioner of the forbidden arts. For those that hunt her kind, the game had just started.