Different Magic

Chapter Eight

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Rated M due to future sexual content.

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~~~Chapter Eight~~~

~~~Previous~~~

"Is it the enemy's or one of our own?" I ask, gazing up at him.

"What difference does it make?" He takes one of his arms off my hips before raising his hand; a devious grin spreads across his face. He swept it, palm outstretched, across the air and the wings of the airship jammed. Alarms started to go off.

"What did you do?" I ask, sounding both worried and amused.

"Just messed with it. It won't crash, though," He admits.

Feathers and Claws had sprouted over his arm again. After this war, I need to work and sort out his animal form. "Uh-oh. Here they come." Flying monsters were spat out the back of the battleship, hissing before flying in our direction. Howl picks me up again with his hands. "Those things are Suliman's henchmen. Let's go."

He ran off, holding me tight to his chest as wings burst from his back, and everywhere apart from his face was covered with feathers. "Alright, you're going in." He tells me.

I nod and gently peck him on his lips before he lets me go. I sprinted through the air, reaching the door just as it opened for me. Before the door shuts, I place a barrier around the flower field so that none of it gets destroyed. The door shuts, and I land on the stairs inside. Safe landing. Kind of. Howl better make it back unharmed, or he will have much to answer for. 

~~~Present~~~

I had to take a bath again. The smell of pollen made Sophie sneeze; it had stuck in my hair and got on my clothes. Night fell, and we all headed to bed. I said goodnight to Sophie, the Witch and Heen before heading to Markl's room. Markl was just getting into his bed. I smile softly before tucking him in. "Goodnight Markl."

Markl looks up at me with tired eyes. "Goodnight Rose."

I head towards the door when Markl calls out to me again. "Don't worry about Master Howl, Rose. Sometimes, he likes to go away for days on end."

"I know...Go to bed, Markl." I say softly before closing his door, heading back to my bedroom, and sitting on my window seat, gazing at the moon.

The next morning, after breakfast, I showed Sophie and Markl the field of flowers Howl gave me. We decided to sell some flowers in the shop. It gave us something to do, so we all picked out flowers. Markl made the posters while Sophie and I placed the flowers into bunches.

Later in the afternoon, Markl came rushing in, heading straight towards us, panicked. "Rose, Sophie, there's a strange lady in here." He points behind him.

My eyes widen when I see Mother come into view. I couldn't help but narrow my eyes slightly when I saw Mother's eyes widen when she saw Sophie, and yet there wasn't any shock in her eyes, which meant she already knew what to expect.

"Mother?" Sophie says, surprised.

"Sophie! Rose!" Mother opens her arms and rushes towards us, well, mostly Sophie. She lunges at Sophie, causing the pair to fall to the ground. Mother lifts her head and looks at Sophie as tears well up. "Thank goodness you're here. I searched everywhere for you. Oh, my. Look at your face. You're so old. Everyone's saying it's my fault that you left." She cries before lowering her head and hugging Sophie again. Sophie hugs her back before Mother lifts her head again. "You'll forgive me, oh, won't you, oh Sophie." She hugs Sophie again.