A Portrait of a Witch

Chapter 18

<You May Think of it like this> as Celine Spread her hands wide open a Ball of Light Suddenly appeared it was Bright yet pure. Then suddenly the ball of light changes its shape. as a form of a person's silhouette.

< Can You See This Doll?> Celine said, Izach Slowly Nodded Silently as he was Surprised of such sophisticated and unbelievable Magic he was seeing.

"Then What does this Doll Represent?" Izach as he Tilted his head Sideways.

<Then Let me Demonstrate it More> Celine Said.

The Doll of Light Transformed into a darker shade of amber. then slowly a glow of light slowly Lit up as a speck on its chest burned weakly as if it was feeble and weak that even one blow of wind could Extinguish this small ember in an instant.

<Now do you get it?>

"I Get the gist of it..."

<Then Can you Explain. what is this?>

"From the Looks Of it, the Light in the middle is A Persons Soul?" As Izach Answered

<Ding-Ding Ding!!! That Is Correct!!!> Celine Said. Then a smile appeared on her face.

<This Is You... to be in fact it is weird...For A Normal Person. Your Whole Body Should Be Filled With Life or I Might say Your Soul must be Radaintely Bright as it Covers your Whole Body...Yet I Can Only See A Speck of it...> as Celine Answered in a Concerned Tone.

"T-Then i-is it Bad?"

<I Can Only Say... If You Ever Tried Learning Magic nor Any Forms related to Magic you Might Die...>

"Wh-What!!!"

< In This Case...Y-Your Body Can't Handle My Contracts...> Celine Answered as She Pondered.

"Th-Then Will I Die if any forms of Magic Comes Attach with me?" Izach Stared at Celine with a Puzzled Look.

<Y-Yes...to Be In fact your Soul was so Small it can Only be Compared to a size of a small Ember If I Tried to Sign a Contract with you would obviously die... yet the weirdest thing about your body, As If Someone Forcefully Extracted One-Fourth Of your Soul>

"If One-Fourth of My Soul was Missing Th-Then I Should Be Dead!!!"

<Well you Should ask your Parents and Not Me!!!>

"Why? Was This Supposed to be Related to My parents, huh??!!"

<I Don't Know!!! Because I'm Not Your Mother!!! Plus You're Really Abnormal!!! I Mean It!!!>

"Why Am I Abnormal??"

<You really Don't Know> Celine took a Step back and Sigh in Disbelief.

<To Be Exact If A Person Lost One Fourth Or Even Abit of A Person's Soul It May Cause Implication to A Person Body!! If A Healer From The Church Heals you. it won't have any significant effect on a person's body due to your lacking soul!!>

"So you're Saying, Even if A Priest used their Healing Spell on me, It's still useless because a portion of my soul is Missing?"

<To Be in fact it is not Useless, it Only Heals your Soul except your physical body>

"Then Does A Priest's healing spell can help me regain a portion of my Soul?"

<No... To be In fact it only Slows down a person's Death...>

"T-Then Can You Guess how much time I have left to Live??"

<I do Not Know...> Celine Looked away at Izach's Eyes. even if Celine gave Izach an Answer it would only help him in the Short term of things.

"I-I Thought You were the Witch Of Plague!!! I Thought You Were the Person Who Cursed this Damn Empire. yet you don't Know The Answer!!? What Kind Of Witch Are You!!" Izach Raised his Voice at Celine who was lowering her head.

<Saving Someone is Different From Cursing this Damn World!!!> Celine Raised her Voice. biting her Soft Plump lips while Clenching her Soft Frail Hands into a Fist.

<I Don't Know...>

<I-I Re-Really Don't Know...> As Celine's Voice Trembled, and as she Looked Away Hiding Her face. As A Few Minutes of Silence passed by. Izach's mouth began to open as he Looks down at the ground and bit his lower lips.

"A-Are you sympathizing with me?" Izach said in a weak voice as he gazes at Celine in Disdain.

<Y-Yes....> Celine spoke as if her chest tightened in pain.

"Why!!! I Wasted My Life For Eleven Years yet. the Moment you Came Along the walls that I've built Slowly Disappeared as if it was Nothing. Yet, the First Person who I can See A face is you, Why Did you Have to Tell Me!! Why Did I have to know I was About to Die!!!"

<I don't Know!!!> Celine's Heart Wrenched Knowing that A boy this young wasted his life without knowing anything, he lost his Vision to see a face he Lost his Mother, Now a Sudden girl just popped out in Existence breaking his so-called faceless world. spouting she was the witch who cursed this empire, Not only that the person who told him that his life is almost at's death's door.

"I Wished you Didn't Tell Me about this... Yet, A part of me Wished that. It's okay if you gave me A false sense of hope of Living...yet why..." As His Throat Clenched in Sorrow., He Knew Every time each word came out of his mouth wishing for that sense of false hope of Living his hope of living slowly crumbled due to one meeting, As the walls around him collapsed in an Instant.

<I-I'm Sorry...> Celine wished that she can give him hope. Yet no matter what she does, she can't lie... She can only look away at those eyes who were wishing for help, yet she can't. She Can only hope that this News would give him more aware of the situation he is in.

"I'd Be More Damn Happy If You Lied!!! I Would've been happy if I was Ignorant About this about my situation!!" As his Hands Trembled. while he bit his lower lip trying to hold the pain that aches in his Heart

<I-I'm Sorry...I'm Sorry...I'm Sorry...> As Celine Continuously Apologized, Each word was filled with guilt each time she tried to stop herself from breaking down and looking at his eyes, Celine knew well the pain that person right in front of him feels, even if they are connected even if they can feel each other's emotion. she can't still help that to blame herself.

"It Already Happened And Nothing Will Change..."