Laura McLaren: The mother of Diana Cavendish IV

Laura goes to the goddesses

POV Narrator:

Laura was extremely excited and perplexed at the same time after her prayers were finally answered regarding a request to go and talk to Harriet and Freya about a possible cure for the curse of the metal balls, after more than a year of struggling to find a possible cure everywhere, there were no convincing results, only results that came to nothing, both in the lab that Rosemary worked in at the WCI, and by Laura's own account, there was no potion capable of curing that thing, or a formula capable of being so strong as to annul the effects of the metal balls, nor did Laura know what to do to remove those things from inside her, since surgery was practically impossible, since it would cause a rupture in her stomach due to the cuts and how those metal balls stuck to her stomach when they were not activated by the approach, plus there was the other factor that the constant movement of those things inside the stomach could even cause serious injury, so it was totally out of the question if Laura and Bernadette didn't want to lose their stomachs. There had to be a way to get those metal balls to evacuate from the stomach, but unfortunately there was no way for that to happen, no matter how hard the two of them tried to find a cure. That's why Laura was even appealing for more divine help, because she knew that without it she would never be able to see her own daughter.

Saturday, September 11, 1999, England, London

The day of Laura's visit to the two witches finally arrives, Laura even made a point of waking up early that day and soon she was getting ready, quickly she put on some clothes, a backpack and she was following in the location where Harriet and Freya pointed in the map where McLaren would find them, it was a trip not very long, since the redhead flew as fast as she could taking all the ingredients of the curse and also a little of it still kept and the book that contained all the instructions about the curse. After a long flight crossing the United Kingdom, leaving from Ireland, Laura finally arrives in London, she is soon going through the huge city until she arrives near a very simple house, when she lands there, she rings the bell and just waits for the two immortal witches to answer it.

POV Laura:

What a simple little house, for two very fucked up goddesses I imagined something like a castle, a fortress or something very gaudy, but no, they live in this simple little house near London that anyone lives in, this is really quite strange, I waited for them to answer until I feel a magic emanating from the floor and I am quickly transported from nowhere to the inside? Damn... They are not stupid at all and when I get inside the house that looked more like one of those normal buildings they have around here in London I notice that it is much more than that, the house is huge inside, it is almost the size of my house, so I follow the path trying to find them, I walk around the surroundings of the house, until I get to the kitchen, they were both wearing robes and both were having breakfast, this is a scene that seems silly to many people, but to me it was a bit shocking... They are extremely powerful and immortal witches, seeing them having a routine life even left me in shock, I could not imagine that witches of this level were so common, so much that I stare at them and then Freya looks at me with a gentle smile and offers me a place to sit.

- Make yourself at home Laura McLaren, make yourself at home, make yourself at home - she said all nice... I knew that Freya was the sweetest of the nine, but I never imagined that she would say something like that to me... I was even blushing with embarrassment.

I sit down on the chair all embarrassed... And I decide to eat one of the toasts, since they allowed me to eat, I put some jam on it and when I put it in my mouth the taste was... Normal? How come? Even incredible goddesses eat food from us... Wow... So I continued eating normally, the food was really very good, but I thought it would be.... a divine tasting food or something, but it's like all very normal... I found that very strange... I don't know why, until after I eat everything I am satisfied and for the first time in my life I end up having manners at the table wiping my face all nice and polite until I hear a burp from Harriet.