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Sliptide
forgot who I was
and tried
to claw me
and melt me,
so I put the plans on hold
to watch myself
enter the astral realm
through the eye
of a straw.
I threw a memory spell at her
but it didn’t work
even though I knew the night had taken it
not that long ago
so by all accounts
I did the spell right
but I guess
the night
knew a thing or two
about dragons
using magic
to take
their meal-minds back
and had ways to block
even properly aimed spells
so I guess
a little mortal witch like me
got lucky
in getting mine back,
or it just slipped out
like a gnat
without it noticing.
So then
I fled
before Sliptide
ate me
but then figured
she
might try to eat her lover
and therefore wake her
before I met her in the astral plane
and thereby prove me wrong
when I’d said I’d meet her lover there
so I went back and lured Sliptide away from her den
with half the ingredients I’d gathered
plus a match
to make them smell
delectable
then I banked on the fact
she wouldn’t know how to return home
from the middle of the woods
until I got her memory back,
then I went
planning how
to take down
the night.
Jordyn Saelor 