[ WP ] Your young daughter is a magic prodigy with summoning powers . Despite you being normal , when she 's in danger she keeps summoning you first .

The light that always blinded me when I was summoned faded away slowly. There was an equal amount of blinking and rubbing my eyes until the dark spots faded and I was able to look around at my new location. 
 
 As always, I looked for Mira first. She was the only one who could summon me and only when she was in real danger. My eyes skipped over the smoke and the flames and the bodies and found her. Her arms, always so skinny, were wrapped around her legs. Her bony knees were scratched and bleeding and her clothing was torn and covered in soot. 
 
 `` Mira!'' I stepped over some charred remains of what had once been a person and knelt before her, my hands scooping her and holding her close. She was so big now! I could have sworn it was just the other day that I could lift her up above my head and now she was looking like she was going to be taller than me some day. Where does the time go? What a strange thought to have at a time like this, but with a daughter, well... it's hard to forget the little girl with her chubby face smiling when daddy came home. 
 
 `` Daddy!'' Mira cried into my shoulder. She had n't called me that for years. This must have been a bad one. I rubbed her back and told her over and over that I was here now, that she was going to be alright. 
 
 `` I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I tried. I really did.'' Mira pushed against me and I let her go, she fell back onto the floor and I really looked into her face. Fire had scorched one of her eyebrows and the skin around it was red and raw. Seeing her hurt made tears well in my own eyes. 
 
 `` I know you did, Mira. I know.'' I forced myself to smile at her, to let her know that I was n't mad... to show her that I was n't afraid. 
 
 `` They...'' Mira looked toward the corner and I followed her gaze. Five corpses sat there, twisted and charred by fire. As I watched one of their hands, curled in anguish as they flailed in death, crumbled away into ash and fell to mix with the rest of the soot on the floor around them. 
 
 `` They tried to kidnap me.'' Mira was looking down at the floor when I turned back toward her, `` They tried to cast a siphon-'' 
 
 My heart ran cold inside my chest. I thought it had been long enough, I thought I'd done enough to erase her past. If one person knew, then... 
 
 `` You did good, Mira.'' I wanted to hold her again. I wanted to steal her away again. She was n't a kid anymore though, she was growing up so fast. I had to tell myself that last part a few times as my hands shook, `` It's not your fault.'' 
 
 `` I tried to warn them!'' Mira cried again, falling into me as I wrapped my arms back around her, `` I told them! I did!'' 
 
 `` I know.'' 
 
 `` The fuck?!?'' A gravelly voice broke into the moment. 
 
 I turned to find a large man standing in the doorway on the other side of the room. I had n't even noticed the door there before, it had been partially obscured by a fallen support beam and the smoke from the still-burning fires. 
 
 `` Who da fuck are you? Did you do this shit?'' The silhouette pushed forward, not even dodging around the fallen beam but instead pushing through it. I watched as the aged wood splintered and exploded as his chest touched it. It did n't even slow his walk for a second. 
 
 `` Bastion.'' I said the magic group out loud so that Mira could hear me. I'd been teaching her about things like this. I had just hoped she'd never have to use the information. 
 
 `` That's right.'' The Bastion Mage stalked forward, the world pushing away from him as he closed the gap, `` This idiots were supposed to lock that little shit down, I underestimated just how truly incompetent they were.'' 
 
 `` You do n't know what you're messing with.'' I warned him as I stood up. Ash and debris fell from the ceiling onto my head but I tried to ignore it. A mage like this was one that required undivided attention. I had to keep every one of my normal human senses locked onto him, `` If you do anything to-'' 
 
 `` Oh, shut up.'' 
 
 I was on the floor before I realized he had even hit me. My ears rang and I was fairly certain there was blood covering one of my eyes. I tried to sit up and found that I could n't take a full breath. Broken rib? I looked down. A large chunk of the ceiling was on top of me as well as some of the furniture from the floor above us. I twisted around a bit more, looking for- 
 
 Mira. 
 
 She stood in the center of the room, standing right between myself and the Bastion Mage. He was a brute of a figure. He face was thick and scarred over a dozen times. He was casting. I could see it in his eyes. Magi like him always got that look when they were pulling magic. I tried to warn Mira. I tried to tell say something, anything... but I could n't. I did n't have enough in my lungs and I could n't pull in enough air either. 
 
 `` Now sit down like a good little girl.'' Bastion showed his teeth, `` I've waited a long time for a meal like this. Kaasta Vonuska Di Siphon-'' 
 
 The explosion ripped half of the building away. When I was able to look again all I could see was the open sky and the silhouette of my daughter. Standing there; shaking... crying. 
 
 I had hoped so much... so hard that this would n't happen again. They did n't know how much power she held. They always underestimated it, they always planned to steal it without even thinking about how dangerous it was to unleash the seal on Mira's power. I could n't do much, but I did what I was able to do. I helped her be strong. I let her cry on my shoulder. I let her talk to me without showing fear in my eyes. She was my daughter, not a monster. I'd never look at her as anything but my little girl. 
 
 `` Daddy!'' 
 
 I sat back and closed my eyes as she summoned a stone golem to lift the debris off of me. She was amazing. She was so amazing. My little girl. 
 

