A Portrait of a Witch

Chapter 16

Taking Time As You Wander Whether It's Unknown Or Known, How Much I've Eager To Persist To Remember A Face And Who They Are. All I See Is None. A Smudge Or A Clean Slate That I Can't Even Fill Up. It Only Took A Ghost Of A Witch to Break that This Wall Of Mine. Yet Why... As I Clenched My Teeth. All Alone In A Empty Meadow. Standing Below this Vast Land of Nothing. As I Gaze At The Empty Skies In front Of Me Where I Am Supposed to Be Who Was A Puzzle that Was The Voided Deep in Depths That I've Craved To Become. Vanished.

'Can I Change?' .More Than A Thousands Of Words Entered my Mind Neither One Can Out Weight The Fact I've Been Naive. I Stayed The Same As Time Moves Forward. I Stand Still As Others Takes A Step Forward. I Stayed The Same As Others Progress.

"What have I've Been Doing All My Life..." As I said in a Breath. As A Tear Slowly Feel Down on My Cheeks. 'Why Am I Crying?' I've said To Myself. yet How Much Time I Cried I'm Only A Wimp. No Matter How I Act. No matter Who I Am. I Even Can Remember My Own Face. I Can't Even Be Proud Who I Was Or Where I Am. As My Heart Drops As The Color On My Face Slowly Paled. I Can Only Grab my Chest And Look At The Empty Spot Where The Supposed Me Stood Before. I Sighed Heavily As I Stared At The Sky.

'I Look Up To You As You Look Down Upon Me.'

No Matter How Much I Stare at What's Above Nothing Changed. No Matter How Much I Look Below My Feet Nothing Will Happen. No Matter How I Look Back I Can't Turn it Back.

"All I can Do Is Move Forward."

'Sigh... No Matter How Many Times I Look at Any Direction Nothing Will Change if Don't Move Forward'

As Izach Stared Aimlessly Looking At What's Ahead. "Hey... If You Were in My Position What Would You Do?." Izach Mumbles too himself, As a Breeze Flew Past By.

"Yeah, You're Right...". A Smile formed On Izach's face as He Looks forward to what's ahead.

I Know I Can't Catch Up. I Know I Can't Reach Them Yet. But I Still Have the Time To See What's Around Me.

As Izach Was About To Take his First Step A Voice Suddenly reached His Ears.

<Do You Want to Change That Much?> The Voice Whispered At Izach's Ears.

[If A Person Really Can Change in A Blink Of An Eye Then No Person Should Be Suffering.] As Izach Answered In His Mind While He Gazed At the Sky.

<Well I Can Grant Your Wish.> The Voice Said.

[A Wish That's Mostly Superstitial That You won't Be Proud Of.]

<You Wished that Pain that Lingers Deep Inside You Disappear Yet why Is It That You're Rejecting My Offer.>

[Because It Only Gives Immediate Result Without Progress.]

<But Many Would Wish Immediate Results Than More Of How A Person Progress is it?>

"Well, I would prefer if you don't label me as such person who wishes to cut such corners. and learn from my mistakes." Izach Said as His Brows Furrowed.

<Fufufu... Is That So?> She said in a questioning tone.

"Then It would be Better if you Show yourself?" Izach Said as He gazes at his back.

Only to See a Woman in A Black Dress and Lustrous Black hair Dancing in The Wind.

<It Seems Like You've Known I was watching you?>

"Well For A Witch you Do seem to have a weird taste on young men?"

<H-How R-Rude!!> Celine Said As she Puffed her Cheeks.

"Oh My, Is This Your Curse?? Cursing Me With Your Childish Behaviors?" Izach said as a smile formed on his face.

<How Dare you call a Fine Lady Like Me to act Childish in front of a Disrespectful Child Like you, Young Man!!>

"Well Forgive Me Miss Celine I'm Just Astonished. A Beauty at Your Caliber Would, Of Course, Make Men And Women alike Would Question Their own Sexuality?"

<O-Oh My Y-Young M-Man Do-Don't A-Attack Me Like That.> Hiding Her Flushed Face Using Her Lustrous Black Hair.

"It's a Joke... No Man Would Love A Five Hundred Year Old Granny Like you."

<Yo-You B-Brat!!!>

"*Cough...I Am not a Brat. Miss Celine, And I Only Spoke In Such Crude Manner since I Wouldn't Be Sure Such Man Who Would Love You When The Day That You Have to Tell Him Who you are?"

<Hmppp!!! let This Young Lady Dream Of Love!!> As Celine Said. While She Pursed Her Lips While Frowning.

"Well, What Kind of Person Would Have not been Shock to Learn that the Witch Who Cursed The Empire would be such a Romanticist?" Izach Spoke In A Sweet Like Manner.

'Really... Who Would've Known This Historical Of A Figure That Parents Used to Scare Their Childrens Would Be Afraid of This!!! For The Last Thing, I Heard of. She Doesn't Act Like A Noble Girl in her teens Who Loves to Gossip and Loves to Talk About Love!! But She's just a total Romanticist!!'