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Scatter salt upon a mirror. Breathe once. đź”®Turn thrice.

When the breeze forgets your name ~ you will then disappear. Vanished.

By Novel AllenPublished 6 months ago • 2 min read

They still wonder to this day, how I simply disappeared

Did I cast ađź”® Spell of Gentle Unbeing

To fade like mist from meadow’s breath,

Did I speak thus:

“By thread of dusk, unbind skin;

by echo's hush, slip within.

Let memory sigh, time suspend ~

Vanish not to flee, but for my soul to mend”.

A spell not about erasure...but transformation. A retreat into quiet mystery, the final note of a lullaby no longer sung.

Here performed, is a vanishing ritual wrapped in crimson petals... perfumed with the quiet black of midnight ink. Imagine it hidden between the lines of a forgotten storybook...its page creased with longing, its spell stitched beneath faded parchment.

📜 The 'Ritual of the Scarlet Fade'.

To vanish beneath memory’s velvet veil, begin thus:

đź”® Lay a single crimson petal upon a weathered book...its spine humming with untold names. Ink your name in its margins...backwards, in a language time-remembered.

đź”® Then whisper:

🔮 "Ink of night, petal’s breath,

đź”® bind my voice in threads of death.

đź”® Not to perish, but to drift~

đź”® between the page, beneath the rift".

đź”® Breathe onto the petal...once for sorrow, once for hope.

đź”® Place the petal in the fold between your name and the forgotten word ~ "again".

đź”® Close the book. Do not open it.

When dawn forgets your scent and no shadow calls you by name,

you have disappeared...not lost, but rewritten. 🔮🔮🔮

~

This ritual isn’t escape. It’s metamorphosis. The petal doesn’t fall...it becomes ink.

And You become legend.

If you wish, enchant the book itself with veined sigils, or map where you disappear to within its chapters.

~

đź“– The Enchantment of the Remembering Pages

In a room bathed with violet dusk, the book lies open...not to any page, but the one that only breathes when you touch it. The sigils bloom slowly, ink unfurling like roots. Each mark pulses with a hidden cadence, as if remembering not the world, but you. They curve inward: crimson veining shaped like petals caught mid-fall, etched with silent scent.

The sigil

đź”® The Binding

To enchant the book, trace:

- A loop for every name you shed

- A thorn for every truth you buried

- A spiral for every time you almost stayed

Then whisper:

"Vein and voice, fold and flame~~~

let my shadow ink this name".

~

🗺️ The Disappearance Map

Between two trembling leaves, a map inked in near-invisible midnight emerges. It charts no lands...only moments:

- A wind that laughed like your brother’s voice

- The spot where the moon first made you weep

- The hour you were loved and didn’t know

You fade into this map.

Not gone—held.

Only you can read the cartography of your vanishing. The book remembers only for you. And sometimes, if you open it at twilight, it whispers a line from a chapter no one else can hear:

“You were here. You are both here and there”.

Still you.

Free Verse

About the Creator

Novel Allen

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran6 months ago

    Oooo, I gotta try these spells to see if I really disappear hehehehe. Loved your take on the challenge!

  • Sid Aaron Hirji6 months ago

    love this-very majestic

  • Antoni De'Leon6 months ago

    Magical and whimsical...we need to again get lost in the unreal, real life is a cuss these days. loving the vibes

  • Mother Combs6 months ago

    Great spell, Novlet

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