Extra for a Reason

Chapter 8 | Four vacant chambers

The rune flashed for a few seconds but...

"Huh..?" nothing happened.

"But...but...did I chant wrong?"

With all her magic, Terla poured all her hope too. But the result disappointed her...

"There must be something wrong..., something is wrong, is the magic I poured not enough?"

She felt so helpless as she kept repeating the same chant and thumped through the pages recklessly...

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" Ahh!!" a thin paper cut her finger and blood flowed out from the paper cut.

A drop from the cut fell onto the rune and suddenly, the rune glowed in deep blood red color.

Terla was bewildered watching the scene.

Soon, a tiny figure glowing in a pale gold light appeared in front of her and she heard the figure ask,

"Do you wanna make a contract with me?"

She answered " Yes." but she couldn't hear her own voice, her vision became blurry, and the taste of blood entered her mouth. When she touched her face, blood was flowing out from her nose.

She looked at her hand through hazy eyes then again at the little figure...

*thud*

Terla collapsed on the floor.

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"Ahh..."

Sunlight fell on her and she was woken up by the warmth.

Holding her aching head, she sat up.

She opened her eyes and as her vision got clearer, what greets her was a little figure staring curiously at her. When she looked down, her nightgown was stained with blood all over and her hands were also covered in blood.It took her some minutes to grasp the situation.

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When she came back to her senses, she asked the little figure still inspecting her from afar...,

"I...passed out?"

The little figure nodded.

"And...you are the little glow from last night?"

It nodded again and a bored voice rang in her mind, " Yes. I am a light spirit...and you can call me Anna."

'I thought she would be a bright and cheerful spirit but as from the way she talks...'

" I can hear you."

" What? You read my mind? Hey, even if you are a spirit, you can't just read others' minds as you like. It's privacy!"

Anna picked her ears and said "I didn't read yours, I can just hear it. And I told you it's Anna."

" oh..., Anna." Terla could only be silent.

Terla: " Do you know what happened last night?"

Anna: " You still can't control the pure magic inside you. The magic in your blood activated the rune. While summoning me your magic went berserk and then you passed out."

"So did I succeed? I mean ..., the contract..."

Anna didn't answer but interrupted " Keep your questions. I'm tired. I spent too much magic healing you." and she then turned into a light glow and disappeared into Terla's body.