Damien's Novela

Chapter 14

Valeria's pov

What's up, I'm Valeria of the Alquimia Coven. I love unicorns. They majestic and dangerous. I even tamed one to be my familiar! Her name is Pandora. She always lets me harvest her venom to experiment with. During one of these experiments, I have made the cure for unicorn venom. Pandora has a pitch black coat of silky, smooth fur, dark gray mane and tail, bright yellow eyes, and her hooves and horn were a bright white color, offsetting her dark coat and mane. 

I have short, frazzled, pink hair, scarred, brown skin, thick glasses, and alchemy ready clothing. Leather covered steel everything. I had a bright pink leather satchel given to me by my lovely hag teacher with a huge V on the front with tiny text for the rest of my name next to it. I love that bag more than my life. It's charmed with expansion charms and protection charms. Pretty standard, but I loved it nonetheless. My witches symbol is a unicorn's horn. My official title is "The Unicorn Alchemist" for pretty obvious reasons. 

I had my favorite thick, pink, leather goggles over my face as I experimented with unicorn venom, and powdered nirnroot leaves. When done right, nirnroot and other ingredients could make potions of invisibility. If nirnroot could make such powerful and finicky potions, what would happen if such a dangerous ingredient, was met with an equally dangerous ingredient like unicorn venom. I finished grinding the leaves in my mortar and picked up my tiny human shaped doll. 

"Pandora~ I need some venom~"

I held the doll up, so she could easily stab and inject her venom. I took the slightly dripping doll and wrenched it above the heated glass bottle. As I heated the venom, I tied a thick cloth over my mouth and nose. If you breathe the fumes of unicorn venom, you'll get sick within seconds. I'm pretty much immune to unicorn venom, with the amount of times I've been stabbed. 

I was just about to add the powdered leaves, when my Pearl Mirror shot out of my bag and next to my face. I placed my mortar down and pressed my finger to the mirror. My reflection rippled into the adorably frightened face of my best friends familiar.

"Selkie! Sweetheart, what's wrong?"

"Lady Valeria! Master was stabbed by a unicorn! Please come help him!"

I laughed the entire time I bottle up the venom and packed up all my supplies. I waited for the entrance and walked through. Pandora walked in behind me. 

"Sweetheart, take me to him." 

I followed Selkie to Damien's bedroom where I saw a set of twin taking care of him. I twirled my staff and slammed the end on the ground. The two  were flung to the wall , bound with the old flowery wallpaper. (My staff is a beautiful lavender infused dark oak with a large rose quartz crystal at the top.) 

"Damien, you dumbass. I thought I made it clear, never to approach a unicorn without me."

I bumped his forehead with the crystal on my staff.

"It wasn't his fault!" 

I turned my attention to the girl. I was in front of her in a quick second. She went bright red as I brought my nose to her neck. 

"Oh~ Your a freshling~ How very nice to meet you, lovely butterfly mage~"

I smirked at her as the smell of sunflowers and honey flooded my senses. 

"What a enticing scent you have."

She couldn't be more than a few weeks into her training as a witch. Still, within a month or two she'll finally pick up on my scent. I slowly walked back to Damien and Dug into my bag. I pulled out my unicorn venom and mixed it with a small but of rose milk I had on hand. Mix in a few dandelion seeds and a thistle branch and viola!