Failed Manifestation No. 9: The Rebound

Some spells fracture. Others return to sender.

Failed Manifestation No. 9 appeared in a streak of candle soot and surprise — half-formed, half-recalled. Pale pigment surged back up the conjuring line mid-dip, leaving an unmistakable imprint on his back: the mark of a spell that recoiled just before taking full form. From the front, he wears his paint with quiet pride — a clean dip of ash-grey rising like a mountain through mist. From the back, the story is stranger.

Part ghost, part echo, this one is for the wild charmers, the half-spoken wishes, the rebound spells that always seem to find their way back to you.

Finished in matte plaster and dipped by hand. Medium size (12.5 cm.)