Lenn, however, did not settle. Power tasted like the coin he had once slipped from pockets—sticky and intoxicating. He began to use minor charms outside the hedgerow: a small cooling for a baker's oven, a shadow to help a lover evade a jealous suitor. Where harm was small, so was his conscience. He grew bold, then careless. A charm to silence a creditor's bell lingered too long; a coin charm that had been meant to borrow turned a neighbor's purse to dust. Words have third hands, and spells do what metaphors do when they are taken literally.
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