The wind howled and knocked the naked tree branches together, rattling them like bones in a basket. Jeth would know - he’d seen his mother at work. She was dead now, dead and burned in a pyre...

Jeth knows only three things - his mother is dead, his home will be taken from him, and his best chance for survival is to find an apprenticeship as a witch. 

His only mistake was stealing his mother's crystal ball, when he wasn't allowed to take anything. Fleeing the only home he's ever known, Jeth evades his neighbors, struggles with his magical powers, and accidentally makes a bargain with a faerie.

Jeth isn't sure he can trust the faerie Aneirin, but all he has to do is travel with the creature to the next town over -- and then he would be free to start a new life, a different life.

Or was his future already set in stone?

"Glimmers in the Night"

by October K Santerelli