Scarlet Heir

Chapter 7 - Scarlet

 A.n
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It takes much time to get everything as it was but I am successful and am heading across seas by sundown.

“It seems strange to meet a lady like you here.”

“And who might you be?”

“Me?” The man looks surprised. His face shifts and it turns out he’s actually a girl.

“I'm Melony.”

“You can change your face?”

She nods.

“I'm a newblood.”

“Could you show me?”

Melony shows me the shifts between identities and explains them to me. I am intrigued I've never met many newbloods.

I settle with a book later - it's one of Julian's​. It one passage reads:  Scarlet has red blood, but the mutation seems to also have close matches to silver and it is strange because she learns from people around her who have abilities. My jaw drops. I thought I was born with my powers.

I find Melony and she continues to show me her ability. After a few days I change my hair color. Strawberry blonde - that will suffice. Melony seems shocked but I quickly explain and she tells me I might find trouble trying to change back again.

“I don't wish to be who I was.” I tell her. I need a new identity now and she's helps me perfect that. I change my eyes - green like leaves, I shift the further apart, make them bigger, make my nose slightly longer, my lips fuller, freckles for my cheeks which have changed from a pale color to a dirty tan, my cheekbones curve smoothly and my chin points sharply above my neck. In terms of body features I am taller, thinner and have more curves.

Melony helps me dress differently. Talk differently - in English, I find the language easier to master as it's quite similar to common the language of Norta I soon find I'm better at my second language than my first. I even learn to stand differently. She unspools years of etiquette training in a matter of weeks and I look like a common red when we arrive at Angles. It's cold here. I'm far, far from Norta now I'm on the the other side of the ocean. Not many know of this country from the states - that's what they call Norta, the Lakelands, Piedmont, Prairie, Montfort and Tiraxes as a whole - it must be one of their biggest advantages, well apart from the fact that the two places are similar to half way across the world from each other.

Melony is starting a new life as well and we find a place with a master together trying to find a way to get shillings from our useless Nortan coins.

We search hard for jobs and finally just as the start of a very cold winter settles in we find one with the landlord of a tavern in a small village littered with travelers. He's stern and makes us sign a contract to work for him for five years.

One day while I am working for my master at the tavern with Melony I find myself face to face with the last person you'd expect to meet in a tavern. Even in Angles there there is a monarchy - although they aren't silvers and have been on the throne since before records we can get hold of today were thought of. There are rumours that Angles was once a free country with a prime minister alongside the monarch but that was abolished some time in OE and now the Windsors rule alone. They are red - most of them but since newbloods have been discovered, their heir to the throne Prince George IX was discovered a newblood seer and he now faces me a barmaid in Castleow. Despite the name Castleow is nothing like a Castle in fact it is littered with taverns like the one I work in and is mainly dominated by travelers heading to Windsor. The Prince must be extremely tired to stop here.