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When you were a kid, you lived with your grandmother in the small town of Silvertree, on the edge of a magical forest. Grandma is a witch, and she taught you how to use your magic to affect the natural world, too. “Magic is a part of you,” she always told you. “Learning how to use it means figuring out who you are.”

Now you’re 19 and on your own. After years of living in the forest while you perfected your witchcraft, you’ve returned to take care of your grandmother’s house and crow-familiar while she’s gone. Figuring out who you are feels more important than ever - not to mention, figuring out what Silvertree is. A lot is just as you remembered: the friendly generous next-door neighbors with a kid just your age, the proud town council, the quaint little shops with quirky punny names, the gentle shadowy forest full of magic.

Stone in the shoe

"Me too. I mean, I want what's best for the town as well, but this is really an environmental campaign. They interviewed me about it for the news, and they kept asking questions like, 'But what if it could be good for the town?' And all I could think was—why does it have to be one or the other? Who says we can either help forests or we can help people? For one thing, I don't see how helping the environment would hurt the town—and it's not like the town is on one planet and the environment is on another. The town is part of the environment. If they can't think of a way to help both at the same time, then maybe they're not the people we should be asking."


She looks at you with determination in her eyes and after a moment takes another sip of her water. Even though it's still morning, it seems like she's been working pretty hard.


"I hope everything goes okay after all of this," she says after a while. "I've never organized anything like this before, and if I screw it up…"


She laughs, as if to make it clear she's not really that nervous—but from the way she steals a glance at the Town Hall afterwards, you can tell just how much she really needs this protest to work.


"I'm trying to convince myself it's not the end of the world if we don't get the result we want," she adds. "At least we tried. At least we showed everybody we're willing to try."


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