I was writing a tmr au set in the days where they hunted and killed witches. This old town was cursed so that everyone eventually would lose their mind and die, except this one witch (called Ava) knew a spell that had to be chanted while birthing a child, and from then on that child would be immune to the curse. The husbands of the pregnant women, the Ladies, disapproved of the witch and forbade her from entering their homes otherwise they would take steps to be rid of her. (1)
but sometimes the witch would come anyway and help make more immune children. The townspeople were afraid of the munies, and killed them, so they had to keep it a secret. Anyway, one day Ava delivered a baby from a dying woman, she had the curse. Unfortunately the lady didn't have neither the time nor the sanity to talk to Ava, so she summoned her spirit (I used Shakespeare's classic summoning spirits spell, the Eye of Newt one) to speak to her. Needless to say, Newt was the child and was named after the spell. I was 10,000 words into the fic, with plans on posting it when it was completed, and everything was lost. I cried for days.
I’m so sorry you lost it, that sounds really interesting! It’s always really great to read au’s that aren’t just the usual high school au and this sounds like you’ve really thought it out as well, if you ever do carry on writing and post it please please let me know because it sounds really brilliant, i’d love to read it!
