Du Nord: The Believing heart lost years (EN)

Confessions

Sunday 28 November 2010, Adelaide, Australia

"Time went by, I was studying, dedicating myself to university, I'm going to tell you about some of the most interesting moments I've experienced in these five years, as I've met some people, made some friends, so that I could get to Luna Nova, although I pretended a lot about my behaviour in order to appear more interesting and to manage at all costs to end up here in Luna Nova, since I wouldn't have the appeal of being a Shiny Chariot, but one day the university magic games would arrive and I would be one of those chosen to compete and even my teammates would be rooting hard for me to win."

Look, it's only today, we got here late, well I spent almost a whole year here, I still remember it... I'd be married to you by now, Daniella, it's so hard to endure all this time here alone, I can't believe I had to leave such a good place to stay here, without you knowing why.
I'm arriving with my team, we've even made T-shirts to refer to our team, which we call Shiny Witches, they had to refer to my old name, even though I don't know it, for the nine witches, the dean appears to make an announcement in the middle of a stage near the sports centre, there's even a stand to watch us, it doesn't look very full, but that's good, I don't want anyone to suspect my potential.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're here for another sporting event at our university, where we're going to see which of our student teams will have a chance of securing a trophy as the witch with the most skills, so be impressed by some of their individual skills and where each one will score points relative to their performance in each part, the rules are very simple, no cheating, only one witch can do any sport apart from the team ones, no physical violence apart from the test which is a fight between witches, plus the same witch can't compete in consecutive events, having to alternate between turns, so let's start this fierce competition!" She announces to everyone and I get ready.

The screen goes on randomly choosing the events, I realise that there are eight teams with eight of each in this game, I think I can do it, I'll win this one for them depending on what it is, even though I'm good at each one I still don't know what the events are like here, and soon the first one to be drawn appears on the screen, the broom icon, it's the broom race, as expected.

"Oh, and the first event that comes up right away is one of the most traditional among witches, let's see which of them is the fastest in this university! Now each team will go with one of their fastest witches and she'll have to be just one, remembering that, and she'll have to show off her skills" The girls all put their hands on my shoulders and I'm the one who takes over, I'm even adjusting my glasses, transforming them into a more assembled version made for racing.

"Is freshman Ursula Callistis really going to try? Girl, this is serious stuff, I can't believe that the most popular girls can risk losing points like that, they must be very foolish to trust you" Just let me cook here.

"Ah, it's never been so good to get free points, finally the Shiny Witches are going to be leaderless after two years of dominating the sports here" Well, I'm here to keep the third, I even feel bad, I wanted to be part of the other groups and dethrone these popular girls, but it's all or nothing to be a Luna Nova teacher, I'm not Chariot anymore, I'm Ursula now.

I just smile and get into position with the broom, with everyone lined up, the lights come on like a traffic light, I pay attention, the top ones come on, then the bottom ones and then the green ones and the start is given with a shot, the girls next to me are all shouting the spell to fly the broom and only a couple don't and that's exactly the one who provoked me, But I start to run ahead, I've memorised a good part of the course, I'm not doing too badly, I'm managing to keep up a good speed, concentrating on what's ahead, so I stay in the lead, curve after curve, I don't see anyone around, I think I'm going to win, even easily.