Avoid The Lead! [[COMPLETED]]

18. A Re-written Fate

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Everything around Celia had been frozen in time and place, and she fell to her knees in the deafening silence which followed.

"I'm the one who started it all!" She cried as hot tears ran down her face, and her heart was awash with sorrow. "Taze-... He saw everything! He knows I caused everything!"

She could clearly remember the hatred she had felt from Taze's so-called 'alter-ego'.

"Don't see things that way." Mind Taze consoled, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "You were under a spell. Also..." He gestured at the frozen Taze. "He guessed you were controlled, but he's just angry...

"Before the time spell took hold, he cast a counter spell, giving consciousness to me- the piece of himself in that necklace." Mind Taze explained. "The time spell always makes everyone but the caster forget, which is why it's too dangerous.

"Taze sent me here to safeguard your memories. I'm guessing he did the same with himself, so you both would remember, and that is the origin of his alter-ego.

"But the time spell was too powerful, and you were the only trigger, because though Vitav was the caster, he had to use your power, and he forgot as well. But you weren't the one in control, so you lost your own memories, completely forgetting Taze.

"That meant I had no purpose in your mind. The 'alter-ego' also had no purpose in Taze's mind, because Taze never met you again in those lifetimes.

"So all we could do was slumber... And watch your lives go by... watch you love someone else - someone who would only harm you, and then we die at seventeen, and wait in a dark void till you begin the Cycle again.

"Can't you understand his anger...?"

It wasn't hard to decipher, and tears ran freely down Celia's face, as she imagined Taze endlessly waiting and hoping she would overturn things each life, only to be disappointed every single time...

Celia had always believed she was the one who suffered her death cycle the most, because she was the only one with the consciousness of previous lives.

But Taze had been conscious as well, stuck in a cycle of suffering, all because she was chasing some fair-haired shadow.

But there was no time to dwell... She rose to her feet, wiping her tears. "How come you're not furious?" She curiously asked Mind Taze, and he sighed.

"At first I was... But I'm the one with you, and could clearly see the ways Vitav changed your fate, so it was easier to understand your choices.

"It all ties back to the reason Taze looked like Vitav in the flower fields, and I suspect that's why the cycle starts the day after..."

At the time, a nine-year-old Taze had just been named Crown Prince, but the people he held dearest wouldn't even speak to him.

"Mother has instructed me not to speak with you!" Vitav coldly said, cutting him off completely.

Crestfallen, Taze spent endless days at the entrance to the West Wing of the palace, where Lady Flora and Vitav stayed, but they refused to meet him, and Vitav completely ignored him whenever he passed by him on his way to his tutor.

To impress Lady Flora, Taze spent two months crafting the perfect flower... A crystal Lily which would never wilt, but Lady Flora wouldn't even see him, so in a desperate move, he chose a day when Vitav was out, and he asked the Grand Mage to turn him into Vitav, so he could sneak into the West wing and meet Lady Flora.

But Lady Flora saw right through him.

"My Vi will never miss a class for such a stupid reason! Hmph. You think you can be my son if you look like him?" She coldly sneered. "The 'Almighty Crown Prince' doesn't belong in such a lowly place. Be gone! And never return!"