The second installment...this one's a bit longer. Enjoy!
"Danse Macabre"
Sìnead continued to grow, and soon her parents found it fit to expose her ot ther children. The neighbors had two boys about Sìnead's age and therefore were set to play in the woods.
Sìnead was nervous.
"Is it true you can control animals," Dun asked.
"Sometimes."
"Hey, make that squirrel dance," Uffish ordered.
Sìnead was scared, her parents told her to never use her magic, but she wanted their acceptance more than anything.
So the squirrel danced.
In delight, Dun screamed, "make it do a jig!"
She focused on exerting her will power, but doubted an instant later, she didn't even know what a jig was! With uncertainty, the magic faltered and the squirrel dropped over.
"What's going on?" Uffish poked the squirrel, "it's dead? How could you kill it!?" He was angry.
Sìnead shrank back, "I tried...I-I'm not used to using my magic - it was an accident!"
"You're not a magician - you're a witch! A bad one too!" Dun shook a fist in her direction.
"No! I'm not! I'll prove it!"
"And kill more animals? No way, we're telling your parents!"
"No! You can't!" fear made Sìnead's vision go white. When she opened her eyes she didn't' realize she had squeezed shut, the two boys had fallen over.
"Dun? Uffish? Are you two okay?"
They did not stir.
"This isn't' funny!" She frowned and knelt by Uffish, shaking him. He still didn't stir. She pressed her fingers to his wrist and waited.
Horror rose in her throat as the truth dawned on her at last.
There was no pulse.
She had killed them both.
Sìnead ran.
She pelted through the twisted trees of the Tulgey wood, tripping over roots and disrupting beds of glowing mushrooms. BLindly stumbling, she soon reached the base of the most ancient reen in the Tulgey wood: the Tumtum tree. Sìnead ran her hand over it, admiring the striated bark smoothed by eons of weathering the harsh elements. She wilted by the base of it, cradled between arches of convoluted roots. The trees timelessness was somehow comforting.
Maybe no one would ever find her.
Then she couldn't hurt anyone else.
Being alone was safe. She didn't have to fear.
Updates shall be often...and don't worry, it'll pick up pace soon enough.