The Witch of Hollow Souls

Vara was never meant to rule the unseen. She was meant to survive it. In a world where spirits whisper, bargain, and linger in the dark, Vara learned to command just enough power to endure. But something is wrong. Her spells weaken. Spirits hesitate. A pressure builds in the unseen, as if her will is no longer her own. Then the summons comes. Vara is offered the truth of real power… and pays the price for believing it. Stripped of her magic, severed from the spirits she once commanded, she is left in a silence worse than death. But not everything is bound. A single, forgotten familiar escapes. And it goes searching for someone who does not need it. A Prince. A man with no magic, no training, and no place in the invisible world… yet something answers him. Not spells. Not commands. Something deeper. Now, as he crosses into a world where perception shapes reality and will is the only law, he must learn what even witches and magicians never understood: Power is not taken. It is held. And what holds can also break.