Unmarked

Chapter 29

Lavina walked around the small town that was just outside the Market. Even though it had been a while since her mother had returned, she still found herself visiting Unora's lair. She watched the old video's of her mother, sometimes specific ones on repeat. Lavina decided to stop staring at the wall and went into the lair once again. But she didn't go up to the throne this time. She decided to do a little snooping around. She looked in all the rooms and wandered around the brige, finding her way into a room with a piano. She went over and sat down, moving her fingers across the keys. She got up and looked at the piano. She stopped at the back and blew on it, some of the dust came back in her face. But then, something didn't feel quite right. Lavina stumbled on her feet and then her mind went blank. Suddenly her body was moving without her permission. She walked out of the room with the piano and made her way to the throne room. She walked up the stairs and put her hand on the throne, but walked past it. When she reached the wall, she searched for a button and then pushed it. The button opened up a section of the wall, displaying a knife in it. Lavina grabbed the knife and then walked down the stairs. She stopped at the bottom and then cut her finger with the blade. She knelt down on her knees and began to write with her finger. Minutes later Lavina completed the spell circle and then it suddenly lit up. The light knocked her out of her trance.

"Agh!" She said, grabbing her finger. Then Lavina looked up to the light. As the light disappeared it revealed a figure, it was Unora. Unora was about this half and half looking creature. Half of her clothing was armor and the other half was what she met Ebi in. She held her hand up to her head and stumbled back on her feet. "Are you alright?" Lavina asked her. Unora looked up to Lavina.

"Amilia? Amilia darling, what's going on?"

"Amilia? She thinks I'm-" Lavina took a few steps back. Lavina turned around to leave.

"Oh no you don't!" Suddenly Lavina was stopped and suspended in the air. "I knew you would come back in here, learn a few new spells, have you? Come, let me see."

"Uh... no?" Unora stopped.

"Why is your voice so deep, honey? Are you sick?" Lavina didn't answer. "Come now, my child, speak up." Lavina still didn't say anything. Unora snapped her fingers.

"Yow!" She screamed. "What was that for?!" Unora turned around.

"That was because you didn't respond, sweetheart. Now, let us pick up where we left off, shall we?" Unora put her onto the floor and then dragged her behind her as Lavina tried to run the other way, to no avail. "Now, call your staff, darling."

"My, wha?" She whispered. Unora waited a few minutes.

"I have had quite enough of your deficiency, Amilia." Unora walked down the stairs, around Lavina and looked her right in the face. Then suddenly, from behind,

"Unora!" Amilia came up behind her and swung her sword at her. Amilia stepped in front of Lavina. Then grabbed her by the arm and ran towards the exit. Amilia put her face near Lavina's ear. "Do not refer to me as mom in her presence." She whispered to her. Lavina looked up to her.

"But she thinks I'm you!" Lavina whispered back.

"Well, what a dilemma." Amilia looked down to her as Unora was blasting at them. "What are you doing here, anyway? And don't tell me that's your blood on the floor!" They separated from each other and then ran back together.

"Sometimes I come here to watch your younger self. There's a button on the throne that displays it."

"And you do this all the time?"

"Well..." She shrugged her shoulders.

"Lavina." Amilia said sternly.

"Enough!" Unora suspended them in the air. Amilia moved, trying to break the spell as if she could just easily touch the floor. "Amilia, who is this?" Unora said, squinting at Amilia.