To Tame A Wild Heart || Book One (An Open SS Fan fiction)

CHAPTER 7 : Evilingston's Sin*

Florina's POV:

Back at Severus's office, which to get to in of itself was a waste of time as the two Professors fought on who's office should we discuss the task at hand in. 

That is until I shot to Severus "Who is wasting time now?"

That was not very smart either as it opened a new chain of arguments between the two. It was until Bubbles held my hand, "Miss Flora, come with Bubbles. The Professors see you walking away and they follow you."

That logic seemed strange to me but when I started walking, they actually stopped arguing and David sped up ahead of Severus to catch up to me which earned him an annoyed huff from the potions master.

"Alright, now that we are finally here. From where shall we start?" I sat on a chair near Severus's desk while he sat behind his desk which left David sitting opposite me and Bubbles with Rose behind me.

"Hand me the book," the potion's master ordered sternly.

Handing him the book, he took out his wand and murmured, "Tergeo" as the thick layer of dust was wiped clean leaving the very fragile book cover and the title visible.

"The trail of peccatorum," I murmured under my breath reading the title "What does that mean?" I wondered.

"The trail of sins, it's in Latin," Severus shot not taking his eyes off once from the book, "Honestly Woods how did you study Latin and not know that very common word?"

My gaze fell to the floor and Bubbles held my hand lightly patting it. I gave her a weak smile as I watched the cranky Professor read quickly under his breath in pure Latin.

After a few hours of the dark haired wizard reading the book and not willing to explain what he found out so far, watching him got boring. Sometime later, David stood up, sighing heavily "Where is the loo?"

Severus was so immersed in reading that he didn't hear the question the first time. That made the other impatient wizard repeat his inquiry more forcefully. The potion's master pointed to a small door to the right.

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"So you are saying that the trail of sins is not just an ironic title on Agrippa's family lust for treasure, it's an actual place," I said trying to piece out all the information the potion's master threw at us.

He nodded and went on faster, "Not just a place Woods, a curse."

"According to this book, there once was a gentleman by the name Evilingston whom met up with Mister Cornelius Agrippa one day. Mister Agrippa saw him frantic and crying about a sin he committed as he repeated over and over 'I have to warn them. I have to stop it'. When asked about the sin he wouldn't tell him out of fear of changing the future."

"After mister Agrippa, invited Evilingston to his house and calmed him down, they started to chat. That's when Evilingston ordered Agrippa to record whatever he was about to tell him."

"Mister Agrippa had the same gift as you Woods, he had an eidetic memory," I nodded as he went on "Over the course of a few years, Agrippa started to record everything that Evilingston tells him to until they ended up with over ten thousand pages that was split up into two books."

"The author here explains that one of the books was destroyed in that era. It was destroyed by a group called the AML-" 

I interrupted much to Severus's disapproval, "What's the AML?"

"If I know I would have told you Woods," he shot me a look and went on "The other book however was protected by Evilingston's curse."

"What is that curse sir?" I asked.