It had been a long hard Winter, and when the frosts thawed the crops didn’t take. She had always been too much, and though her parents tried to tame her they couldn't, which is why it wasn’t much of a surprise when they offered her as a Sacrifice to the Lord of the Crimson Forest. Nobody who went into that realm ever came back. She thought that she would die there, and had made peace with it even. But an old evil is growing, making the magic in both worlds act strangely, and her gifts, the ones she had always had to hide, suddenly became the only thing capable of bringing the balance back. But at what cost?
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