@Book_Lover_Morgan this idea has been bugging me for ages but I have no clue what to do with it so I guess I’ll pass it to you. It’s not fleshed out much but here it is:
A deserter, a soldier running from battle, attempts to flee the war between their people and another because of something horrible they have seen—the return of magic. The enemy kingdom, after a century of silence, has managed to revive magic in the form of their emperor’s “child”—someone who just so happens to come from a long line of immensely powerful mages. This mage has been under an enchantment to keep them safe from whatever caused magic to disappear, only to be woken up and adopted by the emperor. The story could be told from two perspectives—the one of the deserter, trying to run away from what, in their mind, is impending doom, and the mage struggling to come to terms with the fact that they are the only one of their kind left.
