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Maria Soledad, better known as Marisol, was well aware of just how much of a bitch life could be. Despite being born with magical abilities, she was never formally educated on how to perform magic. From age 14, she worked as a domestic servant to a Spanish pureblood family. She befriended the youngest son, Luis Ángel, who over the course of several years tried to teach her some magic from his lessons and textbooks.

She worked for the family for 7 years, the last few of which she’d been in a secret relationship with Luis Ángel. While she hadn’t expected outpourings of joy from an unplanned pregnancy, she didn’t expect to be utterly betrayed by her lover. When his family found out about the relationship and resulting “little accident”, they accused her of bewitching him, hoodwinking him to succumb to her will. And what did he do? Agree with them. In the end, she had nobody to turn to for help.

Now she didn’t have a wand. Never owned one, tried one a few times with disastrous results. But what she did have was an extraordinary ability for wandless hexes and curses. So she put the house under a short-term sleeping spell, cleaned their house out of their most valuable treasures, cursed them for good measure, and ran away. She knew that escaping to a foreign country where she knew next to nothing about the culture and language was a risky move, but she also knew that if it meant her children would have a better life and education than she did, she would do it a million times over.