She wore a gown the deep blush of sunset, the falling wytchen dust creating a net of crystals in her golden hair. A princess puppet slumped against a painted forest backdrop. The only one.ДЄs the threadbare curtain opened, more wood peels and sparkling dust showered the stage from the covered wagonвЂ™s rafters, a natural emission of the enchanted wood, once cut and carved.

The wagonвЂ™s wood was peeling, its stage floor crooked, but it was still the same one. Eyes widening in shock, Lewys unconsciously dug his fingernails into the windowsill. Children dropped coins into a box attached to the wagonвЂ™s carriage and scrambled for seats. Delighted cries of children entered with the breeze.ДЄ pageant wagon creaked into the town square outside his shop, horseless, shedding curls of magic onto the cobblestones from its warped wytchen beams. Still coughing, Lewys threw open the window shutters. No chance of a bride now, for him, in this small town where he had spurned all coy glances sent his way, waiting for his true love to return. Over the years, hope had drained into loneliness, empty and aching, present in the sound of his sawвЂ™s jagged edge, the taste of his own cough-strained, stale breath, the starkness of his bedroom above the shop.

She took his heart as well, but left hope in its place. вЂњWait for me,вЂќ she had whispered in the wytchen grove so many years ago, her berry-scented breath caressing his cheek, вЂњI will come back to you.вЂќ SheвЂ™d taken magic with her, in the wytchen dust glinting in her sunlit hair as she waved goodbye from the newly-carved wagon. Carving the finishing scrollwork on yet another hope chest for the latest bride-to-be in town did nothing to fill his own hollowness. He coughed and gulped from his flask, stepping back from his work. He didnвЂ™t bother sweeping any more, although he probably should - wood without magic produces a drab dust that desiccates the throat, shrivels the lungs. A decade of shavings covered the floor of LewysвЂ™s carpentry shop.

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