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Wouter van Noort
is 49% done
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.
— Feb 12, 2026 08:04AM
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Wouter van Noort
is 91% done
The worst had already happened. Nothing I did now could undo everything that had come to pass. All that I had felt all there was,
was to accept it. Mourn it. And leave it behind. I was not afraid.
— Feb 15, 2026 12:55AM
was to accept it. Mourn it. And leave it behind. I was not afraid.
Wouter van Noort
is 82% done
The Witch looked at me darkly. 'Promise?'
I placed her hand across my heart. 'I promise.'
— Feb 14, 2026 12:16PM
I placed her hand across my heart. 'I promise.'
Wouter van Noort
is 74% done
We had both been alone for such a long time, the Witch for far longer than I. I carried a dark, lurking knowledge: what I would do, so as never to be alone again.
— Feb 14, 2026 05:32AM
Wouter van Noort
is 68% done
I thought of the men who had come before me, watched her like I did. They remained at the castle until their lives ran out. I thought then what a strange way to say they had died of old age without returning home. But later I understood that wasn't what she had meant at all.
— Feb 14, 2026 12:31AM
Wouter van Noort
is 62% done
I wanted to take the burden she carried and set it down, though I still didn't know what that burden was. She was my Witch, and I wanted her to know it. She was mine, and I was hers.
— Feb 13, 2026 02:28AM
Wouter van Noort
is 56% done
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.
— Feb 12, 2026 02:42PM
Wouter van Noort
is 42% done
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.
— Feb 12, 2026 03:36AM
And I knew my sneering mistress truly was what everyone had accused her of being. A Witch.
Wouter van Noort
is 36% done
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
is 29% done
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.
Wouter van Noort
is 23% done
'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
