Monday 16 May 2016

Conjurer

He was about to enter the room when everyone laughed, derisively.
He had wrapped himself in a white cloth; a garland of flowers hung around his neck. But strangely he smelled of fish.
He froze at the door step. He looked at everyone; it was a look that could burn anyone to ashes.
‘You dare to laugh because you don’t know what I have been doing all these days. I was learning magic and sorcery from Circe.’
He had learnt magic from a mythical goddess; he must be mad. That’s what most of them thought. But, for some reason, no one laughed.
‘I must punish you all for your impertinence. This would be your last laugh. Now you got less than a minute. Soon you will all vanish from this world.’
He stepped behind a wooden screen kept inside the room and began chanting strange words.
Everyone kept sitting, apprehensive of what was going to happen. Some of them were now cursing themselves for mocking him. They had only made a fool of themselves.
The chanting had stopped and a deathly silence descended on all of them.
It took them time to realize as to what had happened. The magic had worked; he had vanished from the world.
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A post for Sunday Whirl
Word prompts- hung, less, made, fish, screen, cloth, enter, last, flowers, burn, took, white.

Word count 206

12 comments:

  1. Perhaps he missed one vital training session and paid the price.

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    1. little missteps that prove costly,thanks

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  2. I do love magic! So mysterious. Great story!

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    1. thanks Nicola for nominating me. i wish i could accept it

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  3. may be he belonged to another world :) superbly penned :)

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  4. Could have passed into a new realm, or just a snafu that can't get back from haha

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  5. Nice story. Magician vanished himself. But how did he punish those who laughed at him?

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    1. perhaps he chanted the wrong mantra, thanks

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  6. Probably what has happened is that they have all vanished from the world he was in, and now find themselves in another completely similar!

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