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chapter one. ( calm before the storm )
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THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT being a part of the most elite family in the Wizarding World that made Ascella Black's nerves set off and a stream of anxiety shooting through her veins. Her surname was plastered across scrolls and textbooks and her name was whispered amongst individuals who didn't know a thing about her — but knew her family. She was a living legend. Her mere existence was a miracle ( or, alternatively, some would describe it as a mark against humanity ) and she should be proud to be a part of a lineage as exclusive as the Blacks.
Ascella didn't feel proud. She felt self-loathing. She felt as though she had been robbed of a picture-perfect family.
There was something dark in her. Young as she was, Ascella could feel it, infiltrating her skin and throbbing her mind — she wasn't light. She wasn't good. She was the by-product of an illicit affair between two people on the opposite sides of a war and she constantly felt herself slipping towards the side of cruelty and wickedness. Being a Black wasn't all it cracked up to be; not when any of the last, living members of the family would scorn her and erase her from their wretched bloodline. Truth be told, she wasn't exactly opposed to that.
Her mother, from a Pureblood family just like the Blacks, wasn't as accepted as Ascella used to think she was. In her head, when she was a meek child and her mind was filled with bewitching stories that she believed, she used to think that her mother and father had a whirlwind romance and her father's death was a tragic fault of war. Her mother allowed her to believe that up until she was due to go to Hogwarts.
Whispers would spread and things Ascella didn't understand would infiltrate her innocent mind. And Seraphina Laurent, the doting, lone mother of a Black witch prodigy, rebutted that narrative immediately. So, she sat her daughter down. Doe-eyed with daring silver irises, Ascella watched the woman she adored tell her the tale of Regulus Black and her mother, the man who she called father, but wasn't able to call Dad.
