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Let me tell you why, as my first child is being born, I am in cold sweat.
You see, many years ago, as a young woman I got in a bit of an ordeal.
I was told to take the Princess a wedding gift by my abusive father.
The gift was 300 coins. This was 2 months? salary worth of pay in the Mines.
As a dumb (and rebellious) 15 year old girl, I went and spent most of it on gifts for myself.
What I didn?t know, was that the Witch of Lost Souls was watching me.
She said to me:
?Poor lost child, you have spent all of your fathers coins! He will strike you!?
I felt the blood drain from my face, he would.
I kneeled down upon my knees. Why? Why would I do that?
I began to sob. Sob as if somebody cared.
But somebody DID care. At least at the time I believed she did.
?Now child, I will give you the 300 coins you spent, but under one circumstance..?
Her eyes glittered with malice.
?What? What is it?? I said Panic rising in my chest.
Would she tell him?
?Your firstborn child will be given unto me. No exceptions.?
Oh! That?s okay, since I?m never planning on having a child.
I struck the deal.
Now that would be okay, if my husband hadn?t made the same deal to avoid losing a bet.
Over a bet.
He struck the deal with The Greed Witch.
She is even more merciless.
I?m afraid the Witches will end us, and our baby.
Let me tell you why, as my first child is being born, I am in cold sweat.
You see, many years ago, as a young woman I got in a bit of an ordeal.
I was told to take the Princess a wedding gift by my abusive father.
The gift was 300 coins. This was 2 months? salary worth of pay in the Mines.
As a dumb (and rebellious) 15 year old girl, I went and spent most of it on gifts for myself.
What I didn?t know, was that the Witch of Lost Souls was watching me.
She said to me:
?Poor lost child, you have spent all of your fathers coins! He will strike you!?
I felt the blood drain from my face, he would.
I kneeled down upon my knees. Why? Why would I do that?
I began to sob. Sob as if somebody cared.
But somebody DID care. At least at the time I believed she did.
?Now child, I will give you the 300 coins you spent, but under one circumstance..?
Her eyes glittered with malice.
?What? What is it?? I said Panic rising in my chest.
Would she tell him?
?Your firstborn child will be given unto me. No exceptions.?
Oh! That?s okay, since I?m never planning on having a child.
I struck the deal.
Now that would be okay, if my husband hadn?t made the same deal to avoid losing a bet.
Over a bet.
He struck the deal with The Greed Witch.
She is even more merciless.
I?m afraid the Witches will end us, and our baby.
