Aurora’s World: Konir: Clay: Making an Informed Decision (part 4)

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This entry is part 12 of 30 in the Aurora's World collection

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This entry is part 12 of 30 in the Aurora's World collection

Clay bit his lip. “Going to the underground would mean leaving everything behind,” he said, as any hope he had of being able to stay close to his family faded away. “In the same way I’d have to if I went to the mountains.”

“You were hoping things would be different.” Jennica’s voice was full of sympathy. “Having this conversation more times than I ever though possible means I know exactly what people think when they come here: some are certain that I’m making the underground up when really they’re going to get arrested when they arrive; others come here looking for somewhere safe and it doesn’t matter that they have to leave their family behind because their family doesn’t want them; and the last are hunting for something that means they can have magic while also keeping close to the family who have accepted what they are, even though that means that their entire family is in danger if they stay at home.”

“My brother tried to convince me not to come because he thought I’d get arrested. I told him that you hadn’t saved my life in order to end it and came anyway, because…” Clay sighed. “Well, as you said, I was hoping that I could go to the underground and stay in contact with my family, because I have two younger sisters that I worry about. They might have magic, the way I do, so I don’t want them to end up going through the blooming process alone, the way I would if you hadn’t been there. Now that I’ve been through it myself I thought I could help them, but obviously I have limited choices. I either go to the mountains and never contact my family again or go to the underground and never contact my family again.”

“It’s not a choice I would wish to have to make myself, Clay, so I can understand why it’s do difficult, but in the end you will have to decide what is the best option for you. The true safety of the underground or the insecure safety of the mountains. Someone, eventually, will attempt to rid the mountains of the magic users who dwell within them and I wouldn’t want to be there when that happened.”

“Hasn’t that happened before?”

Jennica nodded. “A couple of times. It’s, fortunately, not something that happens often, and I don’t think they managed to get all the groups that were hiding up there, but I believe that someone will make the decision to purge the mountains entirely.”

“The only way they could do that is by using magic.”

“Something that I’ve learnt over the years is that magic is only truly illegal to the lower classes. The King himself has several magic users working for him, because he wants them to, although they know that they have to be very careful not to do something to displease him, otherwise they’ll lose their place and someone else will take it, the way they themselves did.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

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