Wing Clipping

Preview
"The dark shall form

Shall overtake

Each path you choose

each choice you make

With sound of mind

I say this spell

to abolish the darkness

And make you well

What's needed from me

to make this right

is to com...."

"The spell just ends?"

"I'm afraid it does." Opal looked at the distraught faces of her sister and her boyfriend, before biting her lip and looking down at the spell book again.

"''how does that work?" ''

"I don't know! I didn't write this book! This was my mother's! I've never opened it before!" Opal smacked her hand on the book.

"A spell just can't end like that!" Larkin yelled.

"I don't know! We're missing part of it!" Opal yelled.

"I want to help Blakemore, and this is the way to do it! We just need the other part, wherever that may be." Larkin cried.

"''If we find the other part, this will destroy Blake?" ''Fauve asked, not making eye contact as she pleated the fabric of her shirt.

"We aren't going to destroy her!" Opal exploded. "We're...what are we doing?"

"Clipping her wings." Larkin said decidedly.

Characters
Blakemore Swanson: Girl who's wings need clipping.

Jasper Wingston: Well meaning rescuer.

Opal Wicked: Worried rescuer

Larkin Swan: The one who's too confident in his own reasoning.

Fauve Wilder: Reluctant rescuer.

Luna Swanson: Secret helper

Chapter list
TBA