Minor Mage

by T. Kingfisher

Scared people did cruel and stupid things, sometimes,

now that he wasn’t in so much danger, all the fear came plunging out of the back of his brain and ran away with him.

many wizards over the ages, some of them very major mages indeed, have found themselves curled in ditches and wishing desperately for their mothers. But they tend not to mention these things in their memoirs.)

When kindness came from murdered ghosts and lost pigs, and the adults that were supposed to help you were monsters that walked like men…