This was originally the epilogue from Witching Day, but since I loved how succinctly that story ended, I decided to cut it out, but by the time I had done that, I had already written a fair amount of content so I reworked it for its own submission. This very short story requires no prior knowledge of any other stories in this universe.
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Ingrid clutched her cloak close, seeking warmth in the shadowed wood of Castle Revinor. Her warm breath added to the mist of the clawing trees, their branches cruel and sharp from the presence of evil. She had heard a great battle had been fought here, a battle of witches. She was eager to see if she could pick up any arcane secrets left in the aftermath of their duel.
She cast a quick spell, illuminating the tip of her wand as she trudged through the haunted wood. It was dangerous to go alone they said. But she forged on, this is what separated the truly talented from the chaff. Moments like these. Then she heard the clopping of hooves, the snort of a horse in the distance.
She held her wand forward, illuminating more of the fog. "Hello! Is anyone there?"
The sound of hooves grew closer and closer. Until she saw the beginnings of a horse cantering through the fog, with what was clearly a witch on top, if the hat was any indication, and it usually was.
Ingrid gulped, her mouth becoming dry, nervous if she would have to defend herself from a rival witch also hunting for more power. She was at ease the moment she heard a sonorous voice like velvet honey flowed into her receiving ears.
"Greetings fellow traveler!" she called, her hand waving amiably in the fog. "What brings you hither? Such a pretty thing in so dreary an abode!"
She thought honesty was the best policy, witches were known for many things, stupidity not chief among them. It was not terribly believable a girl like her would simply be out for a stroll.
"Well, curious you should ask because...I...uh..." she trailed off, lost in her thoughts as she saw the approaching rider, her eyes were like stars, violet orbs glowing against her silhouetted form.
The rider strolled up right beside Ingrid, now in the flesh, no fog concealing the work of art that was her body. Her dress plunged down in a v-shape, her opulent breasts barely held back by two vertical straps of black silk, her pouting globes so pert they seemed to be the only things holding the dress up. Ingrid's eyes drifted down, taking in her smooth legs, on full display as they splayed out from the slits in her dress, her pale, creamy skin contrasted by her pitch black thigh high boots.
The rider cleared her throat. "Yes? Continue?"
Ingrid broke out of her daydream, looking up into the rider's hypnotizing eyes. "Oh yes...well I heard there was a great battle here, of sorcery! With no survivors..."
The rider grinned, jumping down from her horse, her bust jiggling beautifully as she completed the movement. "In a manner of speaking yes, all true." she said, putting her delicate fingers just under Ingrid's chin, tantalizing her.
Ingrid gasped, both at the revelation and at her touch. "You were there!? Tell me what happened! I must know!"
The rider closed the difference between them impossibly fast, her face now intimately close to Ingrids. Ingrid was surprised at how aroused she had become, how warm the rider's eyes were, and how inviting her bouncing cleavage seemed, as it glittered with twinkling dust, emphasizing the pale swell of her breasts.