Saturday Story 2024 – Week 12 (A Sign of Evil – Part 13)
Part thirteen of this supernatural/witchcraft/mind control story is now available on my Patreon. Synopsis below:
Lila Walters, a good witch, finds herself entangled in a fight for the minds and souls of those she loves the most.
In this installment, Lila is subjected to a magical exam and a secret about her condition is revealed. Enjoy.
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A small excerpt is available below:
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The magical resonance chamber was an impregnable square construct connected to an array of liquid crystal monitors and a console filled with blinking lights. The perfect combination between magic and technology, it was used to monitor and analyze every source of supernatural power running through a witch’s – or a warlock’s – veins. The first attempts to do so dated back to the early 1900s, but the scanning procedures proved incomplete and unreliable. It took another one hundred and fifty years for some genuine breakthrough in the field but, even then, there were more bad news than good.
As Sarah had noted before, the process was quite painful. In human terms, it was like chemotherapy. By bombarding a body with massive doses of magically-infused radiation, one could get a complete mapping of the subject and screen possible irregularities. An unbalanced flow of magic was a dangerous thing both for the users and those around them. In extreme cases, it could lead to a complete unraveling of the subject’s psyche from the inside out, and without a sane mind the body would crumble as well.
Over the centuries, only a hundred cases of total breakdown had been reported, a drop in the ocean of the magical creatures around the world but those numbers were underestimated. In the regions of the world where the power of the Congregatio Magica wasn’t as prominent, there were many sad tales that would never see the light of the day.
“Is it true that there are people who have imploded because the magic within them was out of control?” Lila asked as she stood outside the chamber.
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