A high-ranking messenger is sent to deliver the King's message to a Witch. A Witch, one of those crackpot self-proclaimed sorcerers who think they'll one day revolutionize Magic, the same witches that keep blowing themselves up with their hair-brained formulas and making themselves sick with their potion recipes thought up on a whim.

What could be so important that the King himself writes to this witch?
(Originally posted in the HFY Sub-Reddit)