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>Memory cont<

Knowing that I am not going to get anything else from her, I then make my way outside. I took a deep breath and then start my rounds of the market. They all wish me a magical 13th birthday as I help them set up before returning to my Grandmother and helping her set up our little trinket stall.

The rest of the afternoon and the following days are all uneventful, however on the evening before the market was planning to move on, a stranger entered the market. I watched him move around the market as his aura of magick was strange. I could tell that he was a warlock, but he was more and I seemed to be drawn to him.

I smiled as he approached our little stall and I was surprised that the attraction and pull to him got even stronger. He picked up a small crystal and held it up to the sinking evening sun, turning it this way and that before looking at me. He smiled, and I was sure that if someone had touched me at that moment, I would