I straight forward to my room and look for Mia. As I opened the door, Mia was standing beside the window and her eyes glared at the outside of Atenowa. I had a feeling that she already knew what was happening with Lucas.
“Mia?”
She takes a glance at me and her eyes are dull and I can feel her fears enveloping in her body.
“Don’t look at me like that.” I said to her,
“What is your plan?”
“You already know?”
She just nodded at me and looked back outside of Atenowa. Mia is my guardian and my other half, but for some reason there are times I can’t read her mind, her feelings, her inner soul that connects to my soul.
“I feel the wind… danger looms over you. I can sense it.”
Mia said to me, astounded by what she said. I am trying to understand what she wanted to tell me.
“What are you trying to say?”
“Don’t come, Thana, Amherst will come after you. You will be in danger.”
“No, I should come. Lucas is in danger. I can’t let him suffer because of me.”
My voice is rattling and I almost cry. I didn’t know why. But the moment I think about Lucas, I started to cry as if there’s an arrow pointed in my heart. It’s like a thorn piercing my chest.
“I’m your guardian. I know what is best for you.”
“Not this time, Mia. Lucas needs me. I’m sorry.”
I flick my fingers three times and lock Mia in the bottle. I don’t want to do this to her. But, I don’t have a choice. The only way to stop Mia in forbidding me to go outside of the Atenowa. Mia is trying to stop me, but no matter the cause, I need to save Lucas from Amherst.
Suddenly, the door opens wide. A girl with long black hair and blue eyes showed up to me and that made me startled. I close the door again. I don’t want to let her in my room. This is my private place and I don’t want to let anyone come inside my room. But in just a moment, the door opened again. This time, she is waving and smiling at me. I come nearer to approach her. I rolled my eyes, my hands in my waist and tried to be a bitch like Victoria or Lilith, maybe?
“What do you want?”
“Oh, I saw a light coming from your room a while ago. I guess you are practicing your magic power.”
She smiles at me and grinds her teeth almost all out, but her beauty is still alluring despite her funny face. I pulled her into my room and locked the door.
“Tell me. What did you see?”
“Nothing else. Just a light.”
“Come with me.”
“What?”
Suddenly I pulled her out and brought her with me out of Atenowa. I made a magic spell on a pathway that led us to Huesca. This pathway is differ from the other before. My head was spinning, and I just felt like I was being pulled around. It was like my stomach was turning around because of the winding inside of the pathway I made. A girl with long black hair shouts out loud and almost holds her breath.
As it lasted, our roundabout slowed down and only for a few moments we found ourselves in a room that looked familiar to me.
It’s Lucas’ bedroom. But I couldn’t find Lucas without any trace of him. The whole room was all in place. I walked around the room to find him, but I couldn’t see Lucas.
The whole place was hushed and the moonlight only illuminated the dark knight. A Girl with long black hair follows me wherever I go and she never runs out of questions that I can’t barely answer.
“Wait Thana, Where are we?”
“We are in the place of mortals.”
“You mean humans… people… Oh my god! We shouldn’t be here.”
“Could you please stop talking?”
“But why are we here? We shouldn’t be here… We are not allowed to go outside of Atenowa.”
“Yes, I know.”
“Then? Why are we here?
“I said stop talking. I will tell you everything soon. Okay?”
“Oh, my god! Orenda will be mad at me if she knows that I left Atenowa.”
“Wait, you said Orenda? Do you know her?”
She just nods at me and looks at me with astonishment.
“Yes. She’s my sister.”
To my surprise, I was slipping on the floor that made a loud sound in the whole room.
“I’m Trisha. My sister said you are special from the rest. You have a special power that other witches don’t have.”
“She said that?”
“Yes. Many times.”
Trisha stopped talking when we heard a sound coming from the other room. We look at each other and wonder what that sounds like. It’s like a big wave and a splash of wind that suddenly comes out.
We hurriedly went to the other room to find out what that sound that we heard. I immediately opened the door and to my surprise I saw Lucas stumbling on the floor unconscious.
Trisha immediately approaches Lucas to check his pulse rate. I didn’t know that Trisha had knowledge of medicine. I was standing beside her and just looking at what Trisha would do. She lifted Lucas and lay him on the bed.
Trisha gets things from her pocket. It’s a herb that is put inside the bottle. No wonder that she is the sister of Orenda. Trisha puts the herbs on Lucas’ nostril to bring back his consciousness.
A moment later, Lucas gasps into the air to breathe, and his eyelid opens a little. But before Lucas opens his eyes Amherst suddenly appears, which makes Trisha and I surprised. At that moment, Amherst uses his power and throws Trisha on the other side of the room. I’m about to fight back against him, but before I did, I saw Amherst choking Lucas and could hardly breathe. There is nothing I can do right now. Amherst is too powerful. He can block my powers, that makes me weak. All that I can do now is to stare at Lucas, gasping in his breath.
I was totally lost to myself when I saw a bloody stream on Lucas’ forehead and neck. I didn’t know, but I was just getting weak and I could smell Lucas’ blood giving a distinct scent in my nostril.