The witch, the mutant and the god

The heart

As you step into the room Geralt follows you, locking the door behind him. You stand in the middle of the room hands clutched at your chest.

'Sit' Geralt says pointing to a chair in the corner of the room as he walked over to a bench and began to look through some old books.

As you sat there you began to look around the room, there are furs lining the bed, candles lit everywhere as if he had never heard of electricity. Everything was hand carved from wood and looked 100 years old.

It reminded you of kamar-Taj in a way, as you thought about it you remembered looking through the books to find out about the crystal.

'I..I couldn't find any information about the stone in my research' you say in a quite voice. He looked over his shoulder at you 'you won't find anything about it on earth' he said grabbing a book and walking towards you.

'It's from my world' he said sitting on the end of the bed looking at you. You looked back at him with a confused look on your face.

He closed the book and took the stone out of his pocket holding it up, you noticed it was no longer glowing. 'This is what's known as a witches heart' he said as you both looked at it. 'It's what gives Witcher their power on my world' he's says passing the stone to you.

As the stone touches your fingers it begins to glow 'why is it glowing now' you ask him holding it in your hand.

'In order for the witch to get her powers the stone must absorb some of her blood, then once they are bonded she will go through the transformation' he explained leaning back on the bed.

'Why do they need to be bonded' you say placing the stone on the table next to you looking back at geralt.

'Once a witch bonds with the stone no other witch can use its powers' he say looking you up and down.

'So now that it's touched my blood I'm bonded with it, what happens now?' You ask leaning forward placing you elbows on your knees slowly starting to feel anxious.

'Well you will go through a process where the power enters your body, every witch's powers are different so is there changing process' he says sitting up again.

'Is it painful?' You ask your voice sounding shaky, geralt gives you a smirk.
'Yes it can be'.

'Has anyone ever died' you ask as you begin to shake. 'Yes' he reply's as he looks at the look on your face as you being to hyperventilate.

Geralt lets out a small laugh as he stands up and walks back over to the bench, 'don't worry I will look after you' he says with a kind voice.

You see him pour some water into a cup and hands it to you, 'here I can see you starting to sweat' he says as you take the cup out of his hands.

'Yeah I don't feel so good' you say taking a sip of the water. As you swallow the water you begin to gag. Geralt kicks a bucket over in front of you as you vomit into it.

He slowly walked over pulling your hair back from your face handing you a fresh cup of water 'keep drinking' he says as you take the water out of his hands.

'It's going to be a long night' he says as he gently lifts you up out of the chair placing you down on the bed with the bucket beside you.

'Try and get some sleep' he says as he places a blanket over you. 'What if I die in my sleep' you say in a panicked voice grabbing hold of Geralts arm.

'Don't worry I will stay here all night keeping an eye on you' he says removing your hand off his arm and placing it under the blanket.

'Now rest' he repeats as he slowly walked over and sat down in the chair facing the bed as he picked up a book.

You slowly began to close you eyes. you could feel the sweat rolling off your face onto the pillow, you could hear your heartbeat in your head and your body felt as if it was on fire.

After tossing and turning all night you all of a sudden woke with a startle, as you slowly sat up you noticed you where no longer in grealts room.

As you looked around you saw rows and rows of trees, you turned and stood up off the bed placing your feet down on a bed of grass.

As you stood up you turned to grab a candle off the night stand. Candle in hand you began to walk through the forest.

There was no sound, no animals not even a breeze. As you looked around you noticed a faint light off in the distance. 'I wonder if there is someone out here' you say as you head towards it.

As you get closer you notice it is a small wooden hut with smoke coming out the Chimney, 'maybe someone does live here' you whisper to yourself slowly approaching the small hut.

Once you reach the door you stretch out your hand to knock but the door opens itself and you feel the wind pull you inside.

Once inside you find your self sitting on a chair in front of a large fire, as you looked closely you could see a figure on the other side staring back at you. 'Hello' you say leaning closer desperately trying to get a clearer look at the person on the other side.

'You are not a witch' a voice said, you have never heard a voice like this before as if it was coming form inside your own head.

'No I'm not' you reply watching the figure still to see if it will move. 'How did you get the crystal' it says again as you looked around still not being able to decipher where the voice had come from.

'I found it in a box with old books' you said standing up out of the chair. 'And do you know what it is' the voice asks as you slowly shuffle around the fire wanting to see the figure.

'It's a witches heart' you reply as you see the person wearing a dark cloak. 'Do you wish to become a witch' it asked again as you slowly approached the cloaked figure.

'Yes I do, I'm not special but I want to be. I want to be able to help people like my friends do' you say as you reach out to grab the cloak.

As you pull it off you see that it is not a person but a tree crouched over in the shape of one. 'Who's talking' you say in shock as you look around the room feeling your heart being to race.

'All of us' you hear the voice say as the cabin around you slowly disappears and you are once again standing in the forest surrounded by a circle of trees.

'All of you' you say spinning around looking up at the trees each a different type. 'Who are you' you ask.

'We are the guardians' they say 'we protect the power and decide if you are worthy of the gift we will grant' you hear them say and you continue to look up.

'What happens if in not worthy' you ask feeing you body begin to shake from nerves, 'Your sole will be trapped here and your body will die'.

You take a deep breath as you feel yourself beginning to panic wondering if you will be worthy or not, you could feel your emotions begin to get out of control.

'How do you know if I'm worthy' you say turning around again to see a small table i front of you with a tea pot and cup.

'You must drink, if you are worthy and wish to harm none you will be rewarded a power which only you will possess' they said as you sat down in fort of the small table. As you sat down and poured the tea into the cup you sat in silence for a moment.

*what if I'm not worthy, what if I'm not meant to be special*

You thought to your self as you picked up the cup and slowly brought it to your lips taking a sip while closing your eyes. As you took a sip you felt your body calm the weight on your chest was lifted and the pounding of your heart stopped.

As you opened your eye you saw that the trees had disappeared and there was a small sapling in front of you. 'Are you still there' you said reaching your had out to touch the leaf closest to you. As you placed your hand on the leaf you felt as surge of emotions rush over that stopped at happiness, 'you are worthy' you heard the voice say again this time from inside your head.

'I can hear you and I can feel your emotions' you say out loud with an excited tone. 'You have the gift of an empath' the voice said for a final time as everything slowly began to fade to black.

You stood up watching everything fade away as you suddenly felt your self fall as you let out a scream.