Witch and Warlock

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"When I was young- because I am very, very old children, as you know- the children in the town used to run around chanting a strange song. I think, if I remember, it went a little like this: 

'When the moon and sun become one again,

And the great birds fly above all,

The great man will raise a burning hand

And the Witch and Warlock will stand tall...'

''I'm not sure if it rhymed well enough, but I do realize what it means now. ''

''When I was little, there was a house exactly sixteen stepping stone lengths down the road. This house was very...mysterious. It was large, but there was never a light on inside. There was never a man in the front yard raking the leaves, never a woman tending her garden, never a child playing infront of the mailbox....it was just empty. So one day my friends dared me to go inside the house. Being an ignorrant, little boy I accepted the dare and picked the lock.''

''Inside I found nothing but cobwebs and dust....until I reached the basement. I began to here noises coming from behind the basement door...strange noises that sounded somewhat demonic...And so I went down stairs like an idiot....Oh!? What did I find you ask? I found dead bodies, glasses full of blood, and a book with words I would never come to understand, lying on the floor....''

''And I found them....a young boy and girl, each about the same age as me, with staffs in their hands and blood on their mouths. Around their necks hung amulets symbolizing a combined sun and moon. They were wearing feathers in their hair, and bird beak masks over their facs. The boy looked at me and I knew that behind that mask were eyes of hate. He raised his hand and it cought on fire. He pointed his flaming hand at me and chanted:''

'When the moon and sun become one again,

And the great birds fly above all,

The great man will raise a burning hand

And the Witch and Warlock will stand tall...'

And so I fainted.....I awoke in my bedroom, free of fear, and memory....only to regain this event in my mind nine years later when I saw the same boy and girl in my local super market......."- Bladewood the Bard, Short Stories of Olympus