The evil sorcerer

Danik informed me that he was writing a story. On enquiry it turned out to be about "a young girl who discovers her magical powers and uses them to save her town from an evil sorcerer. She will have to learn how to control her powers and stop the sorceror before he destroys everything she holds dear". I think he has been reading too many Young Adult book jackets :-p

So after a bit of brainstorming on my part we ended up coming up with a new version. This story is about a grandmother who has spent her entire life hiding and suppressing her magical powers in order to have a normal life and family. When she and her younger brother were little, she tried to teach him to suppress his powers as well, but he was too young to stay vigilant, and he was discovered and driven out when his magic manifested itself. Now she has children and grandchildren and a respected place in the community, but she has spent a lifetime feeling responsible for her failure to protect him and her cowardice in keeping silent at the time.

Now, fifty years later, he has returned as a powerful evil sorcerer to take revenge on the town that tried to destroy him, and she is the only person who may have a hope of stopping him... ( Read more... )