IkuSaari

A young healer woman sets sail to kill her enemies and steal the heart of the prince her rival desires. She encounters deadrousers, cannibals and lunatics as she hunts for epic treasures and love. She finds out she can be everything she wants to be: a doctor and a healer of thieves, a lover and an impressively rich spirit aunt, but the price she has to pay will be paid in blood. 

Serenica Ingram is a brave witch in her twenties. She would do anything to be even better at healing. Mariana Kinley, a witch-hating witch and a ruthless businesswoman, doesn't like competition and drives Serenica out of her home. She joins the pirate crew of the necromancer, Captain Spade. 

The city of Neul that Serenica calls home is a hostile and degenerate place, ripe with rich merchants and homeless witches, but the mythical island of outlaws, Aja Vana, is even stranger. The western islands are populated by outcasts and Serenica would do anything to avoid them. 

Becoming a rich and respected pirate healer isn't easy, especially with both other witches and royals wanting Serenica dead. She has to sail to the ends of the known world just to get her stolen property back, and even harder will be to catch the eye of the Dreamer, the fair prince whom Kinley also desires, while fulfilling the promise to kill a king.

WARNING: s*icide mentions, very mild cursing, violence, blood so please use caution when reading.

discord link finally. it's an actual functioning server afaik: https://discord.gg/tmeZKG5dqT

Water Belongs to the Dead: Heart of the Witch

As Essert arrived with his sword, Serenica lost half of the motivation she had received from the awed admirers of her beauty.

As he drew his sword and cut a few daffodils, she lost the rest of it.

His movements were so swift that Serenica would have no speed advantage. His sword was heavy, and he handled it with ease, the sword was big enough that a normal man of his size would have had considerable difficulties wielding it.

Serenica wanted to be sensible and back away.

Pity she wasn't a sensible woman. She had to try a trick, a real witch trick, and she had to do it in a way that wouldn't be noticed by anyone to preserve her honor. After all, duels were firstly and foremostly about honor, nothing else, not about beating someone and certainly not about killing one's opponent. She had a feeling Essert didn't understand that.

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