The Queen of Nobody (Rewriting)

CHAPTER FIVE

Never again I thought, never again will I use my powers for any purpose, never again will I kill, I have avenged enough.

My hair litters the floor as I cut it into uneven tips.

I cut it shorter and shorter it finally reaches my neck haggardly, some long and others too short. I did not care.

I took the eye contacts I got from the cosmetic shop and I placed them on my eyes, I dyed my hair and eyelashes brown.

I paint my lips brown.

Finally there nothing special about me.

But when I look in the mirror again I found out that I was wrong, I found out that my beauty do not come from my features but from me.

And little by little in that same minute the eye contact dissolve and turn to liquid as if being melted by flames, they fall from my eye like coloured tears, my hair dye begins to fade from my hair root to the tip of my hair and my hair begins to grow back to its formal length or maybe even longer than before, my lips shines and it was back to the bright red it formally was. And then and there I knew that I can never actually run away from who I am, the sea has a queen, and I am their queen.

But I had to make a choice.

I remembered The Selinan-charm- it is a charm that disguises a siren so that they can move freely in the human world. It has not been used over hundreds of years now.

It is a charm that only I and the other queens before me know about, I was to be taught on it by my advisor who betrayed me, but things did not go as planned.

So what I remember now, I found out from my mother, I remember her practising it when I was only ten years old, but now I remember.

I feel like the power in me gave me back that ancient memory as I was in need of it now.

It was a charm used to disguise a siren- but not any siren but the queen of the sirens and of the whole sea.

I can remember mother's voice speaking in an ancient language 'iliria sieprteia trumunia asebunma chalensi un' she repeated it three times, and I remembered why she used this charm, she needed to walk among humans to get the siren's stone but she never succeeded on the mission and it became a forgotten mission. So I repeated it 'iliria sieprteia trumunia asebunma chalensi tri tri', I repeated it just like what she said but I changed my demand from the one year length of disguise to three years and three months of disguise, that is the highest time the charm can hold for. And if you ask me how I knew all these, I won't be able to give you the answer as I myself don't know where the knowledge is coming from.

The next thing I saw was that there was a blue fire, it circled me in a clear semi-circle and I began to feel a transformation.

When it was all done, by that time the mirror was already destroyed so was the furniture, I quickly ran to the car and look into the car mirror and I saw a face I did not recognise; my blood red lips became light pink, my bright red hair became a thick black, my eyelashes were black and shorter but long compared to that of humans, my skin was not pale it had more colour to it, my emerald eyes reduced its glow too but compared to that of the humans it would still be classified as a glowing emerald eyes, my face structure changed a little, and my once long slim finger nails are now clipped short and neat.

I will still draw attention, I thought secretly, but at least I look almost human. But this disguise will only last three years and three months, and what will I do after that?

For the last time I let the magic move the car engine, and the next thing I knew was that I was on the road....