Chapter 3:

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Chapter 3:

(Ellie's POV)

I woke up the next morning feeling drained and tired. I had become so sick of feeling this way. I hated feeling controlled at my age, I would understand if I was a teenager who didn't know any better, but I am 24 and they are refusing to let me out of this house. People are constantly outside my door and wandering the corridors; even if I do attempt to go to the garden, I am quizzed and questioned like I'm about to cross the border to a different country.

My family is part of a royal bloodline of witches, the line that created the vampires and cursed the werewolves. I never had a normal childhood because while my friends were learning algebra, I was learning curses and how to bring down my family's enemies. When I met Harry, he made me feel normal. He reminded me that there was more to life than just living. 

Opening my swollen eyes from all the crying the night before, I sat up and walked toward my wardrobe where I picked out the least ugly dress out for the day. I only had a few clothes with me but the other clothes were mostly Tudor style clothing. The astral plane we were in were full of witches from that time period and strangely the fashion stuck. You would look weird if you wore what I wore on first day here, I wore a pastel pink floral wrap maxi dress with short light frilled sleeves and a long wavy skirt base and my brown ankle boots. Now I have to wear a brown straight dress with white embroidery from the bottom hem of the dress going up towards the waist, the undershirt with bishop sleeves make it look extra old with my dirty brown ballerina's. Not only had they taken me away from Harry, they had taken me away from any normality or reality I knew. I looked in the mirror at the ghost of who I was and wipes my eyes. 

As usual I got dressed and went downstairs. I needed to get out of this house and get some fresh air. I knew that my mum needed to go and get some stuff from the market in the village but she didn't have the time, maybe that could be the prime opportunity to take a break from this place to clear my head, and it gives me the best excuse. I opened the door and skipped down the stairs to the living room where I found my mum drinking her coffee for the morning with a book in her hand, reading intently and lost in her fantasy.

"Morning." I said sitting down at the table. Her gazed looked up to me smiling at my change in mood. She didn't have to be so smug about it.

"Good morning. It's nice to see that you've picked yourself up." She commented as I poured a little coffee in a mug.

"I was thinking of going into the village today." I blurted out not wasting any time. She placed her book down slowly on the table and smiled.

"Ellie." She muttered, about to begin lecturing me on my life choices.

"I'll go to market and get your ingredients that you need for your recipe. Besides, I need to get some air." I explained trying to sweeten the pot. I took a gulp from my cup wanting to leave as quickly as possible.

"I don't think that's a good idea." She chimed in, looking at me as I took a sip.

"Well I am going, it's just the case whether or not I'll pick up your ingredients. That's your choice." I stated bringing the mug up to my lips to take a sip. I could feel the deathly stare come from her as I lowered my mug to the table putting it down.

"The list is on the side." She spoke half-half heartedly before putting her book back up to cover her face. 

 I stood and grabbed the shillings and the list from the side, getting a wicker basket from the side of the door and headed off. Walking down the hill, I could feel two of the men from the house following behind me, giving me a little space but not enough to not make me feel like I'm being watched. As I got into town, I turned into an alleyway when there was a crowd. I quickly put a spell on myself to make me look hidden if seen in full sight. 

"Celare et dissimulare me" I whispered closing my eyes, placing a hand on my heart as I chanted. And as predicted, they looked down the alleyway, looking directly at me before walking away not seeing anything at all.

I came out of hiding and came back into the crowd undoing the spell when I saw the two men out of sight. I took a deep breath and admired the sights around me, feeling free and relieved. Watching the new witches who just came through the portal. I saw a queue of people waiting to pass through and couldn't help but look around. I saw the two men running towards the portal entrance, one talking the guard clearly looking for me. I turned around and hid behind a pillar of a house. I bet there's a way to get to the other astral plane going through without being spotted. I had been told that there was no way of going back but with any spell, there is always a way out.

In the distance, I saw my friend Laura flirting with an attractive guy that everyone in the whole astral plane seemed to know. He was so muscular, handsome and not my type. When Laura came in the astral plane two days after me, she said time was different between the real world and here. For us it was two days but for her it was two years out in the real world. It makes me wonder if Harry's forgotten about me if it's been that long, he could have even moved on.

I walked past her and the crowd and carried on breathing in the freedom wondering when I'll next be able to come out here now I've ran away from the guys.

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