WedgeTailedEagle

Zoeline Hound may have weak magic for a witch, an unruly penchant for finding trouble, and a strike on her name since the day her mother went missing, but she still has the blood of the Hound lineage running through her veins. So a month after her sixteenth birthday, when the day comes for her to earn a Familiar at the mysterious Menagerie, all Zoey has to do to make her controlling Aunt and Uncle proud is follow the Hound family tradition and return with a dog. Any dog will do.Of course, fate has other plans. When the Menagerie's exam matches her with a pathetically miniscule bat named Rook, Zoey despairingly believes she's fallen under the same curse that took her mother.But as she attends required classes at the Night School of Familiarity, to learn how to harness her new bond, Zoey finds herself not at the centre of a curse, but instead in the heart of a decades-long mystery involving her missing mother and a secret organisation bent on destroying all impure forms of magic. Relying on both her new tiny companion, the antisocial son of the man trying to bankrupt the Hound Family business, and her own misbehaving magic, Zoey must get to the bottom of this mystery if she has any chance of saving her family, her new friends, and quite possibly the world of magic as she knows it.Based on Prompt #116. Description is still a work in progress...(Copyright©WedgeTailedEagle - 2025)…