✔ᵉⁿᵍˡⁱˢʰ Stuck in the Past [Grindelwald]✔

15

Freedom. No other word better described Gillian's feeling, which she had been experiencing for weeks, than freedom. Freedom. Neither a job she didn't like anyway; no chores she had to do nor a family that had a say in everything. Without any responsibility. Everything she did and didn't do was completely up to her. No one interfered with her.

Then, in Spain, several posters stuck to toothless walls throughout the city caught Gill's final attention. They were the same ones that had been in Portugal, Italy and parts of England the weeks before. Some kind of circus with extraordinary beings and people with abilities.

Nothing spectacular in itself, for, the so-called 'freak shows' had been more than popular in twenties and beyond, but there was a poster with a name on it. A snake woman, not as we know it nowadays or soon, but a woman who could literally turn into a snake. A woman with the name Nagini. There was only one being in this world with that name and it was at the constant side of Lord Voldemort. His snake Nagini. If this person is really, the same being, as one the snake of the dark lord, then it was uncanny. From a woman to a snake, to the side of the most dangerous wizard of all time and an instrument of murder.

It had been the last show performed in Spain before the troupe traveled on to France. To make matters worse, on this hitherto peaceful evening there was an altercation with wizards and witches, who, this kind of display, found anything but good.

Although the show had been canceled, Gill had been allowed to learn what it was about the woman named Nagini. A blood curse. Nagini was a maledictus, or rather, maledicta. A witch who was put under a blood curse and forced to turn into an animal. At some point, this woman will turn into a snake for the last time and will remain forever. What will happen to her after that, some know. The dark lord will find Nagini during his banishment, without knowing that this one had been a witch, and always be at his side.

Hearsay was all well and good but Gillian wanted to see with her own eyes if this witch was indeed the future serpent of Lord Voldemort. Her journey and next destination was thus set.

Paris.