It was fairly common sense not to anger magic, but your friends had convinced you to go with them to steal from a mage who had recently settled down on a farm. Through some bad decisions and your friends being idiots, one of the cows perished.

Of course, the aforementioned mage found out. The curses and punishments were swift and brutal, giving your friends places on the homestead.

But in a cruel twist of fate, you had been the one cursed to replace the cow.