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Mr. Goward finished reading the report on his ancestral home, the one he invited a specialist from Ecton to check.
"You must destroy it. Cleanup is impossible. The spells — they're all interconnected, with interactions I don't even understand. If you let it be, it could become cursed," the specialist said, after charging him an eye-watering fee. "
What Mrs. Bedwen charged in comparison was peanuts.
And she had a plan — a plan she showed would need a full mage, or at least the supervision of a full mage — to clean up the house without destroying it. And a suggested price.
A high price, for sure — more expensive than destroying the house and building it anew — but a price Mr. Goward was willing to pay.
"So this girl, Mrs. Bedwen, seems way too capable," he told his secretary, who wa
