Ok, I don't know how to do this whole diary thing, I just started.

My name is Kai, I'm an apprentice witch, I live and study in a woodland mansion. My dad is an evoker, he adopted me when I was still a baby, after my previous parents abandoned me.

They couldn't turn me into an evoker or illusionist because I can't channel magic through my body, but I'm satisfied with potions, channeling magic through chemical substances is just as good. After I'm finished with my course I'll see if I can become an enchanter too, so I can channel magic through objects.

My final test is in a couple of weeks, so I will have to study a lot. There will be no time to write here. I chose just the right time to start a diary…

Alright, two weeks have passed, my dad bought me an authentic witch uniform. It comes with the hat and everything! This is going to be perfect.

I will be the best, soon I will be at the top with the most powerful and talented magicians!

I will be above the best!

My dad and some other researchers found something out, he told me that the witches had a big role in the discovery and there's going to be an event where they will showcase it. Last time this happened, they invented the ravagers. The one they used for display got out of control and had to be killed. I hope that whatever this is, it's more… controllable, at least as controllable as the vexes.

Paul from school is such a jerk, man. Yesterday he came up to me making fun of me for getting rejected by my parents or whatever. I just ignored him, as usual. Finals are next week and I don't really need any extra stress.

I mean, where did I come from?

The final is in two days and two days after that we have the evoker conference where they will introduce the thing my dad was talking about.

I just came back from the library. I messed up.

I broke into the area where they keep important documents from nearby villages and structures. I wanted to know about my origin. That was a mistake. I don't know where to start.

They raided my village and killed my parents, thry killed my parens

They killed everyone and destroyed eveything. They took everything I had they took what i could hav had

And then tHEY KIDNAP ME

THEY KIDNAPPED ME, THEY COULD HAVE KILLED ME JUST LIKE THEY KILLED ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN AND INNOCENT PEOPLE, BUT NO, THEY WANTED ME AS A PRIZE

Does my father even know about it?

I passed the finals.

My father has been at work for days at a time, especially with this whole new discovery of his. I wanted to talk to him about the thing, but I can't. It's better that way, at least I don't have to see his face every day.

Did they want me as a prize? Do I have something special? Or am I just a trinket that they found in the middle of all the fire and blood, said "Ooh, shiny" and grabbed? I haven't been able to rest or stay still for the last few days and I can't take it.

There isn't anything I can do honestly, how am I gonna fight a whole society of thieves and assassins?

Should I just disappear?

How?

It's the day. I'll go see what "innovative wonders" the evokers and witches have developed.

They're all dead.

I talked to my father, he knew. He told me he wanted to protect me just long enough for him to find a way to get out of here.

Also, plot twist: they wanted me because I'm good with magic. They faked tests telling me I couldn't channel magic through my body, but in reality they chose me because I'm "above average" at it and didn't want anyone to find this out.

The event was just

An erected plank with restraints on a stage. The whole mansion was there.

They told me they wanted me as the first subject. I denied the invitation.

They just grabbed me and strapped me to the plank in front of everyone.

It was humiliating.

I was scared. They were rambling on and on about something about "vex essence" or whatever. I couldn't see or hear properly. My father wasn't even there. I needed him and he was absent.

They injected the thing into me.

I don't think I even tried to stop myself. I didn't try to fight it, I gave up.

I don't know what that substance did to me, but it felt liberating. Despite all the preparations and precautions, it was over for them as soon as the essence took control of me. I don't remember how I did anything, but no one survived.

Was all of this just a plan? Did my father plan all of this just so I could escape? AND I KILLED HIM IN RETURN!

I think I'm free now?

I'll go to the library and see if I can steal some lessons about enchantments. I have a lot to take care of in my head, and worrying about the mansion and everyone in there is just gonna make this hard.

I got my hat on the way back,

I went into the events area and there's just a pile of bodies.

I did a little funeral for my dad.

I don't even know where to go. We'll see.