calamity [tom riddle]

Two titans, both of them blind yet capable of seeing in the other their own dark double, dance a pas de deux with Calamity for music.

"I'd never give you peace." she said. "I'd torture you for eternity."

"Swear it."

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In a world where magick wasn't always the exclusive domain of witches and wizards comes with an undiscovered, ridiculed, tale of colonial violence and temporal resistance.

Before the Great Theft and long before the Statute of Secrecy, magick flowed freely through all beings, humans and Primordials alike. But through a cruel ritual known as Armorous Manipulation, the Primordials were stripped of their power, forcibly extracted in an act that would reshape magickal history forever. Magick turned to magic. Primordials turned to Mordials.

Claudia Avalon, a young Primordial in 2026 Breckenridge, America, discovers forbidden awareness in the margins of banned books. But consciousness comes at a price. When she's unexpectedly thrust into the past, she uncovers a horrifying truth: an entire race faces extinction, caused by a mysterious event in 1943.

She finds herself at the crossroads of history, knowing that everything must change but not knowing how or if it's even possible. For in every shovel of soil meant to tear out the roots of oppression, the fossils of violence, she found herself digging for both liberation's seed and her stolen body's grave.

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political fantasy • angst • prophecies • original magical realms • tragedy • revolution • academic rivals to lovers