A quick little story for the June ’25 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest to challenge myself to write under pressure of actual deadlines instead of the ol’ “I’ll get around to it.”
The prompt: Children of the Sky
What’s it about?
What happens when there’s a destiny waiting for you and your wise old mentor is seventy years late?
A long time ago, a child fell from the sky … and nothing else happened.
Seventy years later, young hopeful wizard Hungerford Munck shows up at Granny Ermentrude’s bakery. His master was supposed to unite all three Children of the Sky but died before he found them. Together with Trudy, Munck sets out to find the other two, not an easy feat in a world where babies appear in tree trunks and assorted fruit at least once a month, and bring them to the capital. Little do they know what they will actually summon into their peaceful world …
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Genre: Fantasy
Word count: 35.500-ish
