Hexes

My father Jonah, though from a line of magecraft practitioners spanning tens of generations, was both in and out of the house a humble man of few vices and abundant albeit unrewarded virtues. And I — a coddled cadet spared from the daily labors of Hebrew recitations and the weeks-long trials given by a magus to his heir — was treated with all the affections and mild condescension afforded to any younger sibling.