"How would I have known that I'd see you again?" The dreams never faded. Not even when working through life, awake and alert. It hadn't always been that way, and it certainly wasn't something she could get used to. As a girl from a mid-sized city in Texas, superstition was thinly veiled by overtly religious families and it would have been something to laugh at. It would have been, but Ruby knew better than anyone how real magic existed everywhere. After all, she was magic. With an affinity for the fire and the earth's natural bounty of clandestine energy, she was no hokey palm reader or witch doctor prescribing a good roll of boiled eggs onto foreheads to remove bad juju. She knew she was blessed by the God and Goddess in this hectic modern world, but she didn't know that there was more to her existence and her future than she could ever have guessed. What are the Gods thinking, sending her someone entirely too willing to follow her into the abyss? Hearing, "They say that your dangerous, but I don't pay attention to those sorts of things," does not inspire trust, and it certainly causes an eyebrow to furrow in confusion. Who was the dangerous one here? Ruby? Or the newfound company thrust in her path?
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