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

CHAPTER 18 : The Trail Of Sins*

The wizards were waiting for the witch's return with batted breaths. She told them to continue without her but neither of them did. The entire time they kept looking at things that weren't each other, avoiding each other's gazes at every given moment. 

Bubbles was watching the wizard's struggle of not making eye contact and kept chuckling each time they do make contact. Rose however wasn't concerned of whose eyes meets whose and was rather thinking of Florina and how late she has been in the bathroom.

What is she doing that is taking all that time?

After half an hour of the witch's absence, and after the wizard's avoiding-sights game got really boring, the emerald-eyed wizard got up and mumbled, "I will go check on her" and at once headed to the bathroom before hearing the other wizard's response.

"Woods, are you okay in there?" he said quietly. He was met with dead silence. A few moments has passed, he knocked on the door again more louder. Once again he heard nothing. He felt his anxiety rising until he was hit with a thought, what if she fainted again?

Or worse, what if she hurt herself?

He knocked for a third time in hopes of alerting Florina but there was still no response. He made up his mind and began banging on the door with force calling the witch repeatedly. 

Little did he know that Florina's "muffliato" spell on the door was preventing him from hearing anything from the inside. Before he could call on her for the fourth time however, the door was opened forcefully and a very annoyed witch laid behind it.

"Can't a lady take a dump in peace?" she asked sarcastically. 

David was relieved to see the witch safe and sound regardless of her being angry at him. She softly shoved him out of the way with a large book in her hand and headed for the living room.

"Sir" she addressed the potion's master and sat beside him "I have been reading the book trail of peccatorum and I found this," she thrust the huge book on the desk and pointed at the page "it will tell us what you wanted to know all along. Can you read it for us please, my translating spell doesn't last very long."

The wizard moved an inch away from Florina and narrowed his eyes. He lowered his hooked nose to the open book in front of him. "How did you read it, it's in Latin?"

Florina nodded trying not to show nervousness "That's what I am saying sir, I cannot manage the translation spell for more than five minutes. It was extremely difficult to read the entire chapter that way."

He kept his eagle gaze upon her, never blinking once, his eyes pouring onto her, searching her soul. She found it hard to keep up with his gaze and lowered hers casually. 

She knew he was trying to read her mind and she couldn't let him. Reading her mind means finding out the half-baked lie she and Agrippa invented on short notice. Severus wasn't the only wizard who wasn't buying her white lie, Rose too was staring at her carrier in confusion.

'So how will you help us if Rose cannot find out about this?' Florina asked in her mind facing the ghost in the mirror 'You do realize, I cannot just walk in and tell them of the Unbinding ritual you speak of myself. How more suspicious could that be?'

'Oh, of course my dear lady, that would be obviously not convincing,' the ghost agreed 'Therefor, I wrote all the steps necessary in this book right here.' He levitated the book 'Trail of peccatorum' to her and it landed softly in her outstretched hands.

'The writing is pure remedial Latin to match the rest of the book and the chapter's title is similar to the title of the book. You will show it to your friend whom you say can read Latin and simply tell him you used the spell 'transferendum revelio' to translate the words.'