Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #12 by Iulian Ionescu

Author:Iulian Ionescu [Ionescu, Iulian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC028000, FIC009000, FIC015000, FIC003000, dark fantasy, fantasy, fantasy magazine, magazine, novelette, science fiction, science fiction magazine, short stories, short story
ISBN: 978-0-9968891-9-3
Publisher: Fantasy Scroll Press, LLC
Published: 2016-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

And so Wedge became master of Conjury Hall and the kingdom's twenty-fourth wizard. Many people wrote in their journals and letters about his kindness and charity. Charlotte became the first woman to occupy Conjury Hall in its history, learning magic of her own, teaching it to their children when they came.

The people wrote, too, about Jepthe, who had once been their wizard, but who didn't die when his apprentice ascended. He sometimes came to town. They saw him in the tavern, bitter to the end, crippled, unable to make an enchanting gesture, haunted by life as no old man they had ever seen.

When Wedge, adept of a thousand gestures, died after a full life, he left no apprentice, although his and Charlotte's children learned from their parents.

To a passing traveler, the kingdom looked much like the others, but it suffered fewer plagues and famines, less drought and disastrous weather, and enjoyed more fine seasons during which the grapes came rich, the cows were abundant, and marriages and births were plenty.

Happiness and misery were doled to them unequally, and after a long, long while, when the writings had crumbled to dust, the people told no stories of Jepthe the Cruel, or his apprentice, Wedge, but they lived in a place where magic was as common as singing birds and starlit nights, and doors opened easily for friends who were welcome within.

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