A Novice Sorceress
Copyright© 2011 by Vlfouquet
Chapter 1
'The Tri-fold law is the guiding ethos of most magical systems. Simply put: Do as you please with harm to none. What you sow will return three fold to the sower.'
This is the story of Katherine Simpson, although people who know her call her Katy. This story starts on her 13th birthday. The previous 13 years have little or no bearing on the rest of Katy's life.
Katy looked down at the present she just opened. She hoped Tom, her big brother, would buy her the latest Whipper music video. The cover of the kiddy book shone up at Katy, "Here's a Geas, There's a Geas, Everywhere a Geas, Geas, Geas". Filled the cover of the book, along with dozens of geese flying across it. The author's name was one line across the bottom, Abrigal Silverlocks.
Her lips pursed as she slowly looked up at her brother.
"A kid's book?" she asked.
"I'm thirteen years old!"
He laughed and so did everybody else in the room.
"Yeah, but you look ten."
That did it. Katy stood up, which was not as easy as it sounds. Her feet barely reached the floor, as she was the smallest person in the family. Even her ten year old sister was three inches taller than she was. Walking to the doorway that led to the hall, Katy turned to face the room where everyone was looking at her.
"Excuse me, but it must be close to my bedtime."
She then turned and rushed up the stairs to her bedroom. Slamming the door shut behind her, she dropped onto the bed. The tears slipped from between her eyelids as she hugged the pillow to her.
"I will not cry." She thought to herself. For years, they picked on Katy as the midget of the family. They did not mean to hurt her feelings, but they were just so used to doing it they did not understand that it did hurt.
Now THIS on her 13th birthday, they give her a kiddy book! As her emotions calmed down, she dozed off.
Turning over woke Katy up, the book she was still holding to her chest gouged her. Opening her eyes, she noticed the room was dark. Sitting up a blanket slid off her to the floor on that side of the bed. Someone, her mom, put the cover over her and turned the lights off. Reaching over she turned the bedside lamp on. Looking around, she saw someone brought all her presents to her room and placed them on the dresser.
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