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The Files of Nox

The Files of Nox

By: Valentyne DeBudge
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It started the day I found the note.


It was unmistakably in my own handwriting, though not a flicker of recollection lit to life in my mind as I lifted it from the pages it had been used to mark. It was simple, short, sloppy even, very uncharacteristic of me; it read:


Nox is real.


You must save him.



Staring at the wrinkled sheet in my hands, I flipped it over but was met with a blank.


Nox?


I knew the name, but he was simply a story my father used to tell. Setting the sheet down on my desk, my attention returned to the book in hand; though it was difficult to keep my mind from wandering. Nox... wasn't he a witch who had cursed a tree or something?


I couldn't remember.


A beat passed by, holding me hostage in the moment.


Lobotomizing, those words tuned to acid in my skull.


My book hit the floor.


I couldn’t remember?

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  • File 2: He Who Knows The Story

    File 2: He Who Knows The Story
    May 30 2020

    Nox, the name that invaded my mind today and wouldn't leave. It felt so faint, but so familiar, like I had never said it before but a million times simultaneously. Like an old friend I hadn't seen in a decade, the absence hadn't dulled the warmth those three letters summoned inside me. Apprehension stiffened the muscles in my thumb as I tried to press play on the remote, but why?


    Nox wasn't real.


    I knew that to be true.


    Because of course he wasn't real.


    The truth was a scary thing, something I wasn't too fond of. But curses and witches were definitely not included in the truth, so why did I hesitate?

    The truth was far worse than that.

    Magic isn't real.








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  • File 1: The Day I Found the Note

    File 1: The Day I Found the Note
    May 22 2020
    I forgot, how could I forget? I didn't even know what I didn't know but I knew that I needed to know.

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