magisternihil's 100-word story for June 12, 2026

magisternihil wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 12, 2026. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

I was over the moon when they told me I had inherited my Great Uncle Sehrgar’s house. I didn’t know much about him, only that I was his last living relative. And then I saw the place, or the ruin—not the slightest bit inhabitable and less a fixer-upper, more like a tearer-downer. Once I passed the bottom step, however, the whole structure changed, from decrepit hovel to four-story mansion gleaming in the noontime sun. They say my uncle liked to be left alone. They also say he was a wizard. I’d say it was time to find the library.

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