The Chosen Star

Chapter Fifteen

After showering, Jasmine put on a dark green short sleeve string shirt and black ankleless string pants and leather brown boots.

Looking in the mirror, she tied her curly hair into a low bun and left two strands out in the front.

After she knew she was ready after freshening up, Jasmine took the key and left her room.

She wandered around the inn for a little bit until she finally found the library the inn "might've" had.

It looked dreamy, but she didn't know if it could compare to the Althans' library back at Athen.

She's never seen it.

Thinking about the Althan residence, thinking about King William, Elle, and Arthur.

Thinking about... Seren.

She might've not known them very long, but she had a great feeling that they were meant to be in her life forever.

Yet she had to leave so they could live.

So he can live.

"Seren," Jasmine sighed.

His winter hair and winter eyes, his pale skin that she bet was softer than any type of silk, his face that represented sadness, humbleness, and strength.

It showed proper vulnerability that he holds for himself, love for those around him, caring for those in need...

Jasmine left without saying goodbye to Seren properly, but she knew she couldn't or he would've tried and convince her to stay.

"I'm sorry," she whispered into the silence, hoping her words would impossibly reach him. "It seems that I'm bad for everyone that enters my life, and I theirs."

She couldn't go back, and Seren knew it too.

Wherever she went, trouble followed and it was proven right twice.

It can't happen a third time, despite what her dream showed.

The more guilt and pain flooded through her for what she did to Seren after he saved her.

And this is how she repays him?

By leaving and risking her own life?

It has happened before, but this time it was for the greater good of other lives.

Jasmine pulled herself together, despite Seren still being on her mind, and entered the library completely.

As he still was, she decided to whisper a goodbye message that she hoped he would hear.

"Thank you for saving me... now it's my turn. I'll think about you, and I'll miss you."

At that moment Seren vanished from her mind, now making her focus on what was more important: learning the truth about Visionaries.

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After searching around and looking for books that contained the words rarities, genetics, dreams, and myths, Jasmine finally found some of the answers she'd been looking for ever since William told her what she was.

Turns out that one of the books she'd found, The Psychic and the Monster, revealed the historical truth of where Visionaries come from.

It also seems that many before her have marked up the pages inside to make connections to see if the story was a myth or not.

It was a short story, and Jasmine was about to read it to see if it'll answer any questions she had about herself and her mother's power as a Visionary.