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It was a rare sight to see Cedric outside.He was usually indoors, working on a spell or potion for King Roland.And failing, in King Roland’s eyes. Today, he had to travel to Rudistan to top up on his supply of wormroot, which was only found in Rudistan. His heavy work robes worked well in Rudistan’s cold climate,but were torture in the Enchancian sunshine.
Then he saw it.
It was unbelievably big, the fire in the middle of a town like Dunwiddie being extremely uncommon ,since most Enchancians did’t own ovens.Some villagers were trying to put out the fire,but were quite unsuccessful.As he moved closer,he saw the fire was bigger than he thought and was fully consuming a cottage.
Without thinking,Cedric muttered a rain spell,which turned out to be enough to put out the fire.He then tried to figure out what was going on,because the last fire in Dunwiddie occurred when he was 4.
He moved closer to the leader of the improvised firefighters.”Is everything alright?Did anyone get harmed?”
The leader replied.”Yes,unfortunately ,but we have an orphan because of it and the orphanage is full.”
Cedric turned to look at the young girl who the firefighter was referring.She looked no older than 5,with thick auburn hair and reeked of smoke.Something inside him,he wasn’t sure what,seemed to want to make sure she was safe,to provide for her.His parents would have called it ‘motherly love’.”I’ll look after her.”he said,trying to attempt a comforting smile.
“Are you sure?”a villager questioned,”You don’t seem like the motherly type.”
Cedric chose to ignore that sentiment for the time being as he spoke to the young child.”Come,child.We can go to my house.What’s your name?I am Cedric.”
“My name is Sofia.”