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

Serenica had insomnia, again, even though she had stuffed her pillow with obsidian and herbs. She felt like an absolute failure – a healer who couldn't even get herself to sleep soundly in the one place that was, for her, the safest bed in the whole known world.

She went on a walk, and though she had expected to find a man or two guarding the darkness, she found five men instead. Her favorite John, another John whom she barely knew, Blackbones, Spade and Ed had gathered around a dead cat.

"Don't worry, Serenica, it died of old age after a great life," her favorite John said, but it was obvious that he was lying. The cats aboard the Princess were young and agile. This one had obviously suffered from an invisible illness. There were no signs of it having been maimed.

Serenica said a prayer for the sake of the little one. She loved their cats and she was glad that according to Ed this one had not suffered needlessly.

A Dead Cat