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I still had to report to the King, but that was the easiest part
of the day.

It took some time for me to explain, but the Court Wizard un-
derstood immediately, and was abashed at not having realized it
sooner. One of the founding principles of magic is that a piece
of a thing is the same as the whole thing. It's called sympathetic
magic. What a wizard does to a single stone, affects all the
stones in the castle, if the spell is properly cast.

So when an extremely talented, though untrained, young wiz-
ard bums a book made from a tree on the edge of the Enchanted
Forest, the remains of that tree incinerated. The fire simply
spread from there. Sympathetic magic.

Arson by accident.

The King happily paid me the remainder of what I was owed,
and I had my first reference. Not bad, for the Woodcutter's eldest
daughter. Beats marrying a prince any day.

It's not so bad having one for a brother-in-law, however, or a
Duke. The Duke heard of my success, and sent me a message
that he needs to see me, at my soonest convenience. Wonder
what he wants?

IТll Give You Three Wishes
by Kevin Andrew Murphy

Kevin Andrew Murphy's last exploration into the realm of
faerie was in The King Is Dead, wherein he had Elvis sto-
len by the elves. He also has stories in I, Vampire, Weird
Tales from Shakespeare and several other anthologies.

'Oood morrow, young man, and pleasant journeys," said a voice
from the roadside. "What brings you so far, this sunny mom, and
why so dour a face? It doesn't suit you by half, and the look in
your eyes suits you even less. So take off that tired and world-
weary look and tell me how you came to be wearing it."

Conrad looked to the roadside, and there, between the dande-
lions and the boundary stone, sat a witch.

Conrad knew she was a witch. The rats* nest hair was one
sign, artfully arranged with just the right number of dead leaves
and twigs, as if the old woman had once been a young maid who
put flowers in her hair, then had forgotten to ever take them out.

Then there were the clothes: layers of skirts and shawls