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    “Lady, can you tell me your name?” She asks quietly. She sounds like she doesn’t actually expect me


    to answer. Which is fair I guess, I’m not even exactly one hundred percent sure that I can. My head is


    aching. But that’s the question she asked and I am going to do my best to answer. It takes me a minute


    to manage it and I watch as Kiara’s face falls even further with every second she doesn’t hear from me.


    Finally I seed.


    “Ryann.” For a second, I don’t think it worked. Kiara doesn’t react and I sigh through my aching head


    and prepare to try again.


    “That’s a nice name. Ryann… I didn’t want to believe it, I was hoping I was wrong but… I’m pretty sure


    that my mum and dad are dead. They weren’t moving when I was taken away. I was hoping they were


    just asleep or under a spell but… if that were true


    “ould havee to get me by now, Daddy would have gotten me out of here and then probably locked


    me up in a tower like some fairytale character to make sure that no one ever gets to me again.” There


    are tears in her eyes and she lets out a whimpery sort of chuckle before a deep sigh.


    “You don’t talk much, I don’t even know how you talk to me at all. But I do know that you’re nice. You’re


    a good person. I can feel it how you want to help me. I think you might be the only person I have left


    that cares about me. You’re my only friend now. I don’t think I really deserve a friend anymore… but


    you’re still here and I really want you toe find me okay? Ryann… I’ll be your best friend forever


    and ever if you can get me out of here.” She promises. Oh the poor darling. How can she think that she


    doesn’t deserve a friend? What have they done to her? Everytime I speak to her I love this child more


    and more. I’ve never even spoken to her in person but I can’t imagine feeling closer to her than I


    already do. I try to send reassuring vibes towards Kiara but I have no idea if it helps. I sit with her a little


    longer before I return to myself. At some point, I tipped over sideways and I am now lying on the


    bedroom floor. Oops. It’s probably a good thing Bemy hasn’te upstairs. He would not be thrilled


    to find me lying on the ground. Still, I need to go tell him what I learned. I try to get to my feet but


    immediately fall back into the pillows. I crawl over to the bedside table to grab the ss of water


    Bemy gave me earlier. Okay, I’ll tell him in a minute when the world. stops spinning.


    I stumble down the stairs and Bemy must hear meing because he is waiting for me in the hall at


    the bottom of the stairs. It’s probably a good thing because I trip over the third stair from the bottom and


    identallyunch myself at him. He catches me easily.


    “Well hello to you too.” He greets me with a grin and I can’t help but smile back. It doesn’tst though.


    “I spoke to Kiara again. Well, mostly she spoke to me. But she knew I was there.” I tell him. Bemy


    gently lifts me off of my feet and carries me to the living room. I’din but I’m still a little dizzy and


    I just can’t be bothered He sits on the couch with me in hisp.


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    “What did she tell you?” He asks.


    “A lot of things. Most of it sad. She said I’m the only friend she has, and she begged me toe find


    her.” My voice breaks as I tell him and Bemy hugs me tighter.


    “I did learn some useful stuff though. Cheryl’s partner is definitely a woman. Kiara kept referring to the


    partner as “her‘ and ‘she‘. Also, Kiara is spelled. I’ll have to ask Cam more about it, but she said they


    did something to her and she can’t take more than two steps away from the spot they leave her in.” I


    exin. Bemy nods and I can see he’s contemting the implications.


    “We couldn’t sneak in and just take her. We need to deal with the partner first. We might need a Witch


    too in order to


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    break the spell.” He observes and I nod my agreement.


    “Yeah, oh she also tried to describe where she’s being kept. It sounds like a basement or something.


    She described it as having stuff like the Witch shops do. So it has to be the Witch partner’s home


    right?”


    “Probably. That’s useful to know. Almost definitely a Witch, definitely female and probably keeping


    Kiara in her own house. I’ll let Alex know. He’s currently searching through Cheryl’sputer looking


    for… Well, anything useful really.” He texts the new information to Alex. I take the time to call Cam. She


    doesn’t answer my call but does text back immediately.


    Cam- Hey sorry, there’s a huge party booking here and it’s super loud. I wouldn’t be able to hear a


    phone call. I can text? Or I can call you back in a few hours.


    Ryann- That’s alright. Texting should be fine. I managed to speak with Kiara again. She told me they


    spelled her or something. I was hoping you could help me identify it, maybe tell me how it can be


    broken?


    Cam–Sure, tell me what the spell is doing and I’ll do my best to answer.


    Ryann- It stops her from running away. She says she can’t take more than two steps in any direction


    from the ce they left her. I think it kind of makes her fall over or something if she does?.


    Cam- Oh that’s an easy answer. A basic detention spell. Mostly used for prisoners, but most parents


    learn it and it’s asionally used to give overly rambunctious kids a time out. Not something I approve


    of. There’s a whole debate about it. Magically enforced punishments that is.


    Cam- It should be fairly harmless, and usually they onlyst a few hours maximum. Less if you intend it


    to be short lived. If it’s going for longer than that, the Witch would need to re–cast it regrly. Probably


    a couple times a day at least. At night too. Maybe every six hours if the Witch is reasonably powerful?


    It’s more used for prisoner transports since it’s not practical to have to spell someone that much.


    Ryann- Can it be broken? Or do we have to wait for it to time out? If we tried to take her away from that


    spot could we


    do it?


    Cam- The spell is to stop someone from leaving. It doesn’t stop them being taken. If you were to pick


    her up and carry her it wouldn’t stop her. When you put her down she would be stuck in the spot you


    ce her until the spell runs out though. So you could carry her from danger, but she couldn’t run away


    of her own volition.


    I am horrified. Why would anyone do that to a child? And she’s been trapped like that for weeks now!


    The poor thing. I am going to get her free and make sure that she is never trapped that way ever again!


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