The Witch's Brew
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Just a short story cuz I'm bored.
It's partially mystery and fantasy. Enjoy!
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Yakima Legends was an adept witch who was always requested to make potions using mysterious herbs of sorts, even liquids that were far away in a land they couldn't go to receive it from. From saltless water from the sea to freezing lava that was frozen in impossible heat, it was always beyond amazing how she used these and received them.
One day, she is told to go into a land of eternal darkness to defeat an elder dragon for its scales.
Will she drown in the shadows, or somehow find a way to breathe in it?
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