I Don't Want To Catch Rats
Added 2025-08-05 14:42:38 +0000 UTC"The rats are becoming a problem again," the servant noted. "They avoid our traps entirely."
"Something will have to be done!" frowned Sorceress Ghimani. "Send for my daughters."
Some time later, in the Sorceress' throne room, the three girls stood before their mother.
"We must help our people. It is part of the duty of a sorceress."
"Yes, mother," the three chorused.
"You! Finia," she pointed at the youngest. "You are old enough to do your duty."
A flash of magic enveloped Finia. She dropped to all fours, grew fur and was left lying on her side in her new form. Her mother scooped her up and deposited her outside.
"Now do your duty for the town," she commanded.
"But Mother!" pleaded Finia. "I hate rats. They scare me."
"Use that fear and hunt them down. You will kill a dozen by supper."
Finia padded quietly out of the garden. Rats were not nice and had bitten her twice already in her young life. She would love to kill them but at a safe distance, with magic. Not with her own claws and teeth.
By supper time, she discovered she could kill the hated beasts. She enjoyed killing the hated beasts. Her pile of trophies on the garden stone was far more than a mere dozen ... it was closer to a hundred. When time came for rat duty the next day and her mother was about to select one of older sisters, she insisted. She WOULD kill rats today.
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Cat: Wintersmagicstock
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