Xavier's Witch

Chapter 9

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The rain poured mercilessly as it tapped a viscous rhythm on the glass of the windows of the room. Before me was a blue candle that gave of the smell of the hibiscus with droplets of dew in a spring morning.

I lit the candle and the scent increased as it spread through and occupied the room.
I closed my eyes as I maintained focus on inner bodily peace.

"I present myself to you, Aurora. Cleansed by the righteous flame, I walk into your presence".

"What is it you want, child".

A voice sailed passed my ears. She is here, in this place and at this moment.

"I ask of what I know cannot be done". I said looking around as the scenery had changed, I was in a grand throne room, saturated in gold. It was all pleasant as the boom of her voice came once more.

"And What might that be?"

My voice returned as I bowed my head in her presence, her aura overpowering anything and everything in her way.

"I ask of you to spare my own blood, she may deserve death, but I come before you to-"

"She betrayed you!!, All that you stand for, She has made mockery of your training!!, everything you taught her was thrown away the very minute she was addressed by the Alpha of Silver Bound!!, and you dare come into my abode seeking that I save her?!!, nonsense. Have you lost all sense of reason?!!".

"I apolgize Elder Aurora, but she is naive, an uncontrollable young witch, please. If I may plead your forgiveness on her behalf, I take whatever form of retribution you have ready for her, please!!".

"No. If she is all that you say then you should have raised her better, every witch on this earth takes account of each of their atrocities, depart from me now, child!!".

It was like a shock, how I was thrown back into my body, I convulsed violently as I descended to the serene environment I once was in. She shunned me. Aurora shunned me.

I was bleeding from every opening in my face, the dark liquid was smeared all over as I tried to wipe my bloody tears. Raelyn had been damned heavily and she didn't even know it yet. What am I to do now?.
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"The thirteenth rising is almost upon us".

I looked up to face Fiona, I envied her, she had no problems, no troubles of whatever sort. Most people could look so heavenly even when they cried but as for me, I looked like a mess that the devil had created.

"I am not interested in the rising".

Her eyes bulged as she came in fully and shut the door.

"This is the thirteenth of Aurora we speak of, do not let anyone hear you talk like that. Have you really lost it this time?". She stared at me with furrowed eyebrows.

"Why would I be concerned, after all it was her who shunned me, she does not care about anything I want so tell me, why should I do her bidding?"

"Reduce your tone , you are shouting. What did you ask of her".

"I pleaded her forgiveness on Raelyn, for her to give me her punishment, if the prophecy of the thirteenth rising involves Raelyn dying, then I want no part in it"

"You asked the impossible, you have a part in this, since the day we were conceived, this had been the plan, the werewolves will fall, Jerome will beg at your feet, is that not enough?!"

"If we push forward at this, even power will not make me forgive what he made my sister become, she thinks she loves him and someday she will emerge as his queen, this is what wounds me the most".

"Get your mind of it, relax. Raelyn is not dead, there might be hope".

"Hope, hope?. Put yourself in my position and see if you can rest
on hope, I will not risk my sisyer's life on a maybe, this talk is over".

I turned away from her and rested my head on the feather pillow as she walked out. Hope?. She cannot begin to imagine what I am going through.

I wiped what remaining tears were on my face as I fell into oblivion in form of a deep sleep.

Xavier's P.O.V

I lifted my fist to knock on the door multiple times but I could not find the courage, I listened in and all I could hear was breathing at a slow and steady pace. Her heartbeat was calm and only then did I know that she lay asleep.

I walked in shutting be door as silently as I could. Her back was turned to me as she slept and I moved to her other side as I stared at her intently, her hair was disheveled, her cheeks red and her face tear stained. This young witch drew my attention, she intrigued me.
Never had anyone either below or above me spoken to me in such a manner without an iota of fear. Her stubborn nature was interesting.

I squatted down to her face and caressed her supple cheek tucking a stray stand away from her face behind her ear.

I assessed the rare beauty of this being as my eyebrows thickened in confusion. She stirred in her sleep and blinked as she tried to open her eyes. Before her eyes met mine I was gone, down the hallway and to the Royal quarters, there are so many ways in which that could have gone wrong.
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I woke up with a breeze that blew across my face. The windows were closed so there is no way it was the wind. A trail was left on my face, a feeling that I was missing something. I was incomplete without it. It may just be the thought of Raelyn. I concluded as I got ready to meet the others.
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Yadi