Chapter 32
Thirty-Two “Ho-lee shovel,” Dash whispers. My gaze snaps toward him, then back to Zed. “What? What is that? What’s a changeling spell?” “Witch magic,” Dash says darkly. “Swapping a faerie baby and a human baby. I thought the witches stopped doing that kind of thing more than a century ago.” “The spell changes the appearance of both the human and the faerie,” Zed explains, “so that they look like each other. Over time, that part of the magic fades away, leaving the faerie child looking the way he or she would have without the changeling spell. The faerie’s magic remains blocked, though, and he or she will grow up as a human in the non-magic realm, knowing nothing of the world they truly belong to. Usually, the faerie’s magic remains blocked for the rest of his or her human-length life.
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