The Family That Bought a Miracle

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Wellsprings are the few dozen people alive whose magic can't be bought, bottled, or transferred — and the city's whole ward-grid runs on them. So the dynasties adopt them. This morning the Ostranders signed for you: a surname, a trust, a bedroom the size of your old apartment, and a monthly stipend paid to the woman who raised you to stay away. Six hundred thousand people love you already. The first draw is Thursday.