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We love villains because they turn their aches into action, their bruises into battering rams.
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I pitied those around me, those who were not enlightened to the possibilities of enchantment. Those who would live their trivial lives and die without knowing what it was like to undo a piece of the world and weave it into something new.
Upon drinking the elixir, it will be as if a sword were cutting through the merfolk’s stomach. Once transformed, the merfolk will maintain all manner of grace, though each step taken upon these legs will be as an abomination walks, and it will be as though daggers were being thrust into the soles of these human feet. Let it forthwith also be known that if a merfolk sacrifices their natural life in pursuit of a land-dweller’s love, then only through marriage may they obtain an immortal soul and a share of man’s happiness. If that human should rather choose to marry another, then at the sun’s
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“No, no, no.” “Samuel, what—” A shrill whistle sent a cascade of ice down my spine, followed by a male voice that I didn’t recognize. “She is a beauty, I’ll afford you that.”
heartless betrayal that had murdered him.
She sat beside him nursing a newborn child—their sixth daughter, I was told.
Who was he to belittle what I had gone through, the suffering I had endured, when he could have prevented all of it with nothing more than a smile and a word of kindness?
All of them. Samuel and Beldine and the entire kingdom and the entire world. They had all shunned me, belittled my work, mocked my dreams, betrayed my heart.
They would come for poisons and cures, and I would fulfill their wishes and deliver to them their miserable fates, as my fate had been delivered to me. I was an abomination, undone and rewoven back together. I was the sea witch.
honestly, that’s what passes through my mind every time I toy around with the idea of doing something bad. My focus always jumps immediately to the consequences, usually overdramatizing them to the point that I believe this one decision, no matter how small, will dictate how the rest of my life plays out.
1)You are traveling on a path when you pass an old woman begging for food. She looks hungry, but you have only a small loaf of bread and need something to eat for the next day of your journey. You . . .
b.Give the old woman your food. You don’t know how long she’s been without food, and you can find something when you get to your destination. 2)After your teacher leaves the room, you notice that the answer sheet for the next test is sitting on the edge of her desk. You . . . a.Take a look. If your teacher didn’t want you to see it, why did she leave it in plain sight?
3)You are offered the opportunity of a lifetime! Unfortunately, if you take it, you will hurt your friend’s feelings. You . . . a.Take it. These opportunities don’t come around every day, and your friend will understand. If they don’t, were you ever really friends? b.Turn it down. Friendship is more important than any opportunity. What’s success without someone to share it with, right? 4)While you are walking, you stumble upon an ancient spell book that teaches powerful dark magic. You . . . a.Read it. You might not use it, but it’s good to know—just in case. b.Give it to the proper
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3)You are offered the opportunity of a lifetime! Unfortunately, if you take it, you will hurt your friend’s feelings. You . . . a.Take it. These opportunities don’t come around every day, and your friend will understand. If they don’t, were you ever really friends? b.Turn it down. Friendship is more important than any opportunity. What’s success without someone to share it with, right? 4)While you are walking, you stumble upon an ancient spell book that teaches powerful dark magic. You . . . a.Read it. You might not use it, but it’s good to know—just in case. b.Give it to the proper
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Read it thinking its childsplay later realising its not and getting scared then go to option b
