The Retribution of the Ice Cold Maiden

01 - What are you doing?

"What are you doing...?"

A Voice suddenly reverbed inside the head of the 16-year-old Selena Booker.

She hasn't heard this voice ever since she was two. The Voice was inside her head ever since she was born. She couldn't understand what the voice was saying at first as she was just a child and the voice was speaking in a weird and fast way, so when she told her father that there was a voice inside her head in hopes that maybe he will tell what the voice is saying, he immediately asked the Church's Bishop to look into it. He proclaimed that the voice she was hearing was due to the failed Fire Rune structure on her body, which went haywire when she was a baby and it almost took her life. Nobody knows why the rune failed to attach itself to her. The Bishop speculated that she was simply one of the unlucky ones to not be compatible at all to magic. The remnants of the rune can be visible on her body whenever she tried to trigger magic. But the voice seems to be the Devil, whispering to her through the failed Rune, or at least, that was what Bishop Brian speculated. So he sealed the voice away by giving her something. He also instructed that no matter what the voice says in the future, to not respond to it or bad things might happen to her.

But today, after all these years, she heard this voice again, at a time when she stood on the roof of the Pavilion of the Royal Palace in the dark night, with the intention of jumping off from it. She was wearing a baby blue Ballgown and her black hair was flowing in the wind as a single teardrop came out from her icy blue eyes onto her glass-like fair cheek.

"What are you doing...?"

The Voice spoke again, in a much more clearer voice. It sounded like a man in his thirties... but was somehow still immature in nature.

But she was too heartbroken to care. She kept looking below... weighing her options. Even though she was born an aristocrat, her life was full of hardships and pain. First, she was declared incompatible with magic. Then, her birth mother died due to sickness before she turned one. Her Father remarried almost immediately, using the reason that the child should not grow without a mother. Her Step-Mother, at first, used to be kind to her, but when she gave birth to her own son a year later, they become distant. Later, she even started giving priority to her son over her about everything. She also became distant with her Father slowly as he became busier with his work and they only saw each other during dinners. He seems to have given up on her.

But the straw that broke the camel's back was her engagement. She was engaged to Marquis Johnson's Son, Grant, who is two years older than her. Today, at the eighteenth birthday party for the third prince, Grant invited her in a room of the pavilion to break off their engagement. He blatantly proclaimed that he did not want to marry her. He also had brought another lady over, who was Baron Turner's daughter, Patricia. He claimed that he and Patricia were in love for a long time and she should leave them alone. This blow to her heart was twofold, as the love of her life abandoned her and the one who he abandoned her for, was Selena's best friend.

Patricia, Grant and Selena were childhood friends and since Patricia was just a Baron's daughter, the parents of Grant and Selena decided to marry them. The Pain, Humiliation and sadness overwhelmed her and before she knew it, she found herself on top of the Pavilion ready to jump.

'Isn't this fine...?' she thought. 'I am nothing more than an extra in this play. No one will miss me when I am gone. I would also be at peace.'

While she was thinking this, the glass bangle on her right hand kept glowing ominously with an intense red color.

'This... is... fine...' the thought crossed her mind as she slowly started to lean forward. The thought also seems to increase the red light of the bangle.