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AGO, BEFORE THE WORLD WE KNOW CAME TO BE, THERE WAS A TIME AND A PLACE WHERE MEN WERE GOOD. BUT IT DID NOT LAST LONG. MEN ARE TOO GREAT AT TAKING TO BE GOOD. THEY LEARNED TO MURDER BEASTS. AND THEY LEARNED TO MURDER OTHER MEN. AND THEN FINALLY MEN LEARNED TO MURDER CHILDREN. BUT THAT’S A DIFFERENT TIME AND A DIFFERENT PLACE. IN THE BEGINNING, OUR BEGINNING, THERE WAS NOTHING BUT ENERGY AND HARMONY. THEN THERE WERE BEASTS. MEGAFAUNA, REBORN OF MAGIC. THEY WERE NO LONGER ANIMALS BUT INTELLIGENT, COLORFUL BEASTS OF IMAGINATION AND FANTASTIC SIZE. THEY WERE FEARSOME, BENEVOLENT, AND POWERFUL. ABLE TO INTUIT THE INTRICACIES OF THE MAGIC OF THIS WORLD. AND THEN THERE WERE MEN. YES, THEY HAD BEEN WRONGED, BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FAULTLESS MAN. WHEN THE GREED AND THE HUNGER AND THE LUST WAS SCRUBBED FROM THEM, THEY WERE SIMPLY SKINS OF MEN. SLIMY THINGS CALLED WILD BOYS WITH THE POWER TO STRETCH AND MORPH AND MELT. THEY WERE SHELLS, MALLEABLE AND PRIMAL, CURSED TO LIVE A HALF LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE HALF DEAD. Finally, THERE WERE CHILDREN.GIRLS WHO WERE NEVER GIVEN A CHANCE TO LIVE. WHOSE LIVES WERE TAKEN AT THE HANDS OF MEN. BUT IN THIS LAND THEY WERE THE MOST POWERFUL THINGS TO WALK THE EARTH. THESE GIRLS DIDN’T STAND A CHANCE IN A WORLD RULED BY MEN. THEY WERE CAST ASIDE, THEY WERE DISPOSABLE. BUT HERE, THEY WERE STRONG, RESILIENT, AND SKILLED; GIVEN POWERFUL GIFTS AND MASTERY OF THE ELEMENTS. HERE, THEY WERE WITCHES.
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BUT THAT’S A STORY FOR ANOTHER TIME.”
INSTA: @juliahornedo