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Wouter van Noort
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I learned to avoid the Witch like scenting an oncoming storm.
She swept around the castle, barefoot and brutal, a cloud of poison staining the walls black. The door to her Tower remained locked.
— Feb 11, 2026 07:57AM
She swept around the castle, barefoot and brutal, a cloud of poison staining the walls black. The door to her Tower remained locked.
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Wouter van Noort
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Two paths lay ahead of me. I could dig and dig, and I might not like what I found. Or I could let it lie. I could keep my promise. For now.
— 2 hours, 43 min ago
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The lesson still stood: change was possible. It just took patience. Care. Love. Far easier to offer that to the Witch, than to think why I might need it myself.
— 9 hours, 20 min ago
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Everything had changed. I knew I was not losing my mind.
And I knew my sneering mistress truly was what everyone had accused her of being. A Witch.
— 13 hours, 48 min ago
And I knew my sneering mistress truly was what everyone had accused her of being. A Witch.
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I lived, and moved, and breathed alone. It was as the Witch had ordered. I kept out of her way, skirting the tower like a bruise, and asked no more questions of her.
— Feb 11, 2026 03:41PM
Wouter van Noort
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'By oak,' I whispered. 'By ash. By bitterthorn. I swear a bloody oath to you.' The oldest words in Schwartzstein. Words of the woods and midnight fear. The words invoked to ward against the Witch, now bound me to her.
— Feb 11, 2026 02:48AM
Wouter van Noort
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'Pick a companion or I will chose one for myself.'
All the hairs prickled along the back of my neck.
That voice. The monster had roused from its cave.
The Witch walked among us.
— Feb 10, 2026 04:17PM
All the hairs prickled along the back of my neck.
That voice. The monster had roused from its cave.
The Witch walked among us.
Wouter van Noort
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Whispers of a curse filtered through the palace like smoke.
Everything that could go wrong, did.
— Feb 10, 2026 11:36AM
Everything that could go wrong, did.
Wouter van Noort
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I was a dead thing, in my heart. I knew that I was isolated, but I didn't understand my loneliness until I knew what I would give to escape it. What I would be willing to do. Until I knew what it was to love, and be loved. It was the Witch who taught me that.
— Feb 10, 2026 07:31AM
