A Worthy Use of Magic by Katherine Underwood

Prompt: it started as a whisper

It starts with a whisper, as it always does, magic slip-skipping down her spine and bringing her to life once more.

“Does it hurt?” young Pya asked once, when she first accompanied her father to the sepulchre. “Being brought back?” 

The Oracle had been puzzled, and delighted. None of the previous scions had permitted their children to attend the Manteia. She had not seen a child in four hundred years.​

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