Du Nord: The Believing heart lost years (EN)

A visit from witches

Thursday 21 June 2001, Annecy, France

"My time in Annecy was perfect, even though it had stagnated after the explosion of cookies in the city, I was still able to sell from time to time, the city still bought a lot, enough for me to make a living, I was only 30,000 francs away from meeting my target, so I was very excited, I knew that the summer would help me a lot, it had finally arrived and with that I could focus on getting more money, So much so that I could make more cookies and invest in expanding, I already had plans, I was going to take an advertisement to the neighbouring towns, even spread the word to Lyon about the cookies, with Pierre's help, but something happened to make this perfect plan go down the drain, as I said, conservative witches have always been a pain in the arse and I was already disturbed enough by them, even before I started being Shiny Chariot."

I'm about to sell more cookies, today I can make one last batch in Annecy, it'll be a great success, maybe I can close the account, soon I'll have enough to leave with enough to go to Luna Nova and then enjoy the day.
I'm just about to pack up when I hear a knock on the door. I stop what I'm doing as my father, who was on sick leave that day, obviously lying about being ill, isn't even going to answer it, so I go in his place, where I see two older women, they look like witches, one with her brown hair tied up and a big nose and the other wearing glasses and shorter blue hair.

"Is this Chariot Du Nord's residence?" asked the brown-haired woman.

"Yes, it's right here, welcome, are you witches?" I ask them.

"Yes we are witches, we have to talk about something important, you must be the Chariot Du Nord we were looking for, we have an important topic to talk about, it's about your business" said the lady.

"I'm Samantha Babcock and this is Anne Finnelan, we're Luna Nova teachers, can we come in?" The blue-haired girl asks and I nod.

How wonderful, they've come to me, they're Luna Nova teachers, this could be my chance, I don't think even my father expected this, I'm going to win a scholarship for everything I've done, I knew that if I showed my talent, one day they'd recognise my hard work and it really worked.
My father even looked a little different when he heard everything, switching off the television and with that we all sat down on the sofas to discuss what they wanted so much with me, I'm sure this could be a chance of a scholarship, I hope so, it's going to be too magical

"Very well, a very humble house for a Du Nord, even strange for someone who was once so renowned to be living in this place, weren't you from Loperèc? What made you move here?" asks the bespectacled woman with the blue hair.

"Most of the Du Nord family died, only this girl was left after her mother died in childbirth, I'm her father, we had to move to other cities for job opportunities, the city of Loperèc isn't good for that, we're always moving around" Liar, you forced me to move, but I won't say anything.

"Oh, that's very tragic for the Du Nord family, even more so that they ended up in this situation" said the brown-haired woman, who I could see looking at me with a little disgust. I hope not.

"Have you come to offer a scholarship to Luna Nova? I accept a scholarship to Luna Nova, I'd be very happy to study there, I guarantee I'd be a great student" I say eagerly.

"We're not here for that, you're only 11 years old, which is two years below the minimum age to study at Luna Nova, you should stay away from Luna Nova, or at least discipline yourself so that one day you can set foot inside our witchcraft academy, what you've done is a sacrilege to the reputation of witches, where have you ever seen selling mundane cookies using advertising magic to attract attention, this affects the reputation of witches, this goes against our rules of magic, did you know that the consequence of this is to cause a wave of mundanes in magic academies" Said the one with the big nose and I knew she was going to say it.