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Birthday Night
Aurora stared into the flames, wondering how other people felt on their eighteenth birthday. It was a day that would define the rest of their lives, but no one ever talked about it. She knew why. Talking about it would make the possibility of it happening more real. Being a magic user could be a death sentence, if the wrong person happened to hear of it. Parents dreaded the thought of losing their child, while her generation was worried they’d never fulfil their potential. They all had plans for their future, something she’d never been able to do. After spending several days poring over the family trees of everyone in…
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Becoming Human
Watching was the hardest part of being a tree. It could do nothing to change what was happening, because they didn’t speak the same language, and it wasn’t sure they would listen if it did. Over the years, having lived long enough to remember a time before magic, it watched humans hunt those who were different to them, even though they were the same species. Hunt was probably the wrong word. Hunting was a natural process. What the humans did was unnatural. The trees often talked about the humans, trying to understand why they did what they did. First magic was seen as a good thing, and people with it…