Red Witch

Chapter 10

I blinked rapidly, not daring to look at Tia.

A witch? How could that even be remotely possible? Cause if that's true then every flipping fairy tale known to man could be true too.....

"Oh gosh..." I whispered, reaching up with my shaky hands and running them through my hair. I gripped at the roots, a huge cloud of confusion filling my head.

The car was silent, the darkness outside pressed up against it, making me feel closed in as I stared out at the dark woods. The only thing running through my head was how and why.

"Blaise....I'm sorry you had to find out this way....and how I presented it probably wasn't the best either....but think about it. All of the confusing dreams, the shadow and the fire....Blaise?" Tia reached out, her own shaky hands stretched out towards me in hesitation before slowly placing themselves on my cold and clammy arm. How did she know about the dreams?

I flinched but sat there, my eyes glued to the window in front of me and my mind trying to wrap itself around the new concept.

"I don't understand.....Are you.." I glanced at her briefly before returning my dazed eyes to the dark window.

Tia nodded her head slowly as if she were speaking to a child but in that instance I felt like one, a vulnerable and the innocent child.

The secret fasination of fire, the surge of power I felt whenever I was around it, that was what it meant? All of those dreams.....this was so much to take in that the same questions clouded my mind and I stood frozen in shock and confusion.

"I want to know more" I stated. Tia nodded and turned to start the car.

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What Tia showed me was nothing like I expected it to be.....

We drove a little longer after the whole "you're a witch" fiasco, and we ended up pulling into a long twisted driveway with scratchy bare branches hitting the windows. At the end of the drive stood a tall, bleak building. The doors were made of a dark red wood and bits of peeled white paint fluttered off of the tattered surface. The building seemed to be made up of two long halls that stretched to both sides of a tall square front, three stories of windows were showing on each side and the roof seemed to have a walkway as if you were in a castle.

"So why are we at an abandon building?" I looked at her worriedly and she nodded her head to get out of the car in response. I sighed warily and gripped the door handle before finally coming out.

"You'll understand in just a moment" Tia stated. I just followed behind not saying a word. I cautiously tip-toed on the damp gray earth, not liking the cool sticky feel of the mud.

"I'm sure I will.." I muttered. Tia gave a sharp glance towards me but I ignored the look and moved forward.

I eventually gave up on the careful walking and splashed my way up to the large double doors. Now looking closely, I can make out the tiny engravings on the dark wood, small fingerprint sized figures with their hands and arms stretched towards the middle of the door. Each figure had a long hooded robe on that stretched out behind them, intertwining to become a long twisted line along the border of the doors. Right in the middle was a big circle with two lines going through and crossing at the center. There were two smaller circles within in it, crossing over the center line at the top and the bottom . But what really irked me was the imprinted shapes of a woman in both of the circles, the two contrasting in small features. The top one had soft facial features and long curled hair that spilled over the bottom of the circle, almost touching the top of the other woman who wore short tightly cropped hair and a just as tight of an expression.