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The Horse Heart Of Destiny: A Short Story
"That must have been a really big fall, I swear you could have said that I am in a con... concorporatio."
"Oh dulcis Rosa," he runs his hand through my hair, my head instinctively leans into his hand.
"You must have hit your head pretty hard gražus, it's okay you will be okay." All of a sudden my eyes are fighting their way back to the darkness and silence of the night. My body tries to fight the urge but my eyes have a mind of their own, and they drift in the darkness.
When I finally succumb to my urges, I expect to find peace and final relaxation, but I don't. Suddenly I am back in that room with the woman, dead and the two babies by her feet. Their red pendants still glowing as bright as the sun. But there is something different about the
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The Petrauskas family was rumored to be the witches of the town, Adutiškis. Although it was proven they never really were witches, they were something else, something that's even more powerful. Their rituals and practices required a huge group of their clan, they call it a gentus. They all must combine to give their power to their leader. They must sacrifice themselves for the sake of their leader. These powers allow them to manipulate anything and anyone they want. In the 1950s, there was one leader, Agné, he had gotten out of control. He consumed way too much of the power, and lusted for more. He had destroyed everyone in his path, even the rest of his clan. Not one was left alive. One child rose out of the rubble of his dust, with no one to take care of her, she had almost starved to death. But Agné found the baby girl at her last moments, he had raised the child as his own, never letting any harm touch his baby girl. Her name was Rosica, he named her after his lost wife. She was the only person he loved after his wife, but when she grew up... She recognized her "father's" madness and wrong doings. She was trained by him, knew all his strategies, all his powers, how to control them, she was the only one able to stop Agné. And she did, but not

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