3 Werewolves, a pony and a seer excerpt and character reveal! · 11:29am Dec 13th, 2023
I'm still a long way from releasing but did just hit 10000 words and for all the nice comments have an excerpt of what's to come and a revelation of which pony we're focusing on this time!
Professor Sprout looked to the heavens. Please, for the love of Merlin, just let it be a normal wand.
“I named it, Death’s Joke,” the voice went on as Limestone lifted the dark brown, almost black, wand from it’s box and was immediately illuminated in a shroud of black to highlight the wand’s acceptance of her as it’s new owner.
Meanwhile, all the colour was draining from Professor Sprout’s face whilst Kendra was trying her utmost not to laugh at her head of house’s reaction.
“One of my test wands when attempting to find the perfect wand core. Fir, 13 inches exact, unyielding and with a thestral tail hair core,” the voice divulged.
This time Kendra’s jaw joined Professor Sprout’s in nearly hitting the floor.
“My first and only successful thestral tail hair core wand. I instantly found the substance extremely unstable and practically impossible to utilise and only succeeded here by combining it with a wood that will only ever choose decisive, focused and strong of mind individuals who never question their beliefs or choices. This ensures that only those who have truly accepted their own death may wield it, thus why I doubted I would ever find it an owner, let alone one so young as you my dear. Garrick Ollivander by the way, proprietor of this shop,” the voice explained, it’s owner now revealing himself to be an extremely elderly looking gentleman with scraggly white hair and silvery eyes.
Limestone rolled her eyes as she made her way properly into the shop. What was it with all the death omens today? Yeah, so she technically should have died yesterday if not for a one in a billion miracle but seriously did she need to be constantly reminded? Did she just reek of death or something?
“But,” Ollivander stated.
Oh great, just what she needed, a but.
“Fir wands are extremely powerful, especially in the art of Transfiguration, and have an incredible knack of saving their owners from mortal peril and situations where death seems inevitable. My grandfather even labelled them “the survivors wand” and its combination with such a powerful core will, quite frankly, allow its wielder to escape any situation no matter how bleak it may be,” Ollivander disclosed, now standing right in front of Limestone and completely unperturbed by her unusual form.
“And that’s a bad thing?” Limestone questioned with a look of confusion across her face.
“Maybe or maybe not? For you see, young one, although the wielder of this wand may have accepted their death, whilst they are in possession of such a wand, they shall not find eternal rest, thus its name,” Ollivander concluded cryptically.
“Huh?” Limestone responded totally perplexed by what Ollivander had just said.
“What he’s saying is that the only person who can possess the wand you now hold is someone who has accepted their death and likely made peace that they are going to die very soon. This wand prevents it’s owner from dying, no matter how much they want to. Thus, an extremely cruel and twisted joke,” Kendra simplified sombrely.
Limestone stared wide eyed at Kendra for a moment and then down at her newly acquired wand in her right hand. This was yet another fine mess her sister had got her into.
Yep, poor Limestone Pie just wanted a nice quite life on her parents' rock farm (with a nice stallion) and instead ends up in a whole heap of chaos. That's all for now, if it's something you'd like to read, I expect to release the first batch of chapters sometime in January.
That is interesting, also cool wand idea.