I followed Sister to the theatre's audience hall, where she had her “room” and tons of magic books she gathered over the years. She invited me to sit and offered a tea. Then she sat next to me and observed me with a faint smile.
“What made you come here again?” she asked curiously.
“A lot of things…” I laughed nervously, “But I think the main one was… I need to be able to protect the ones close to me and myself…”
“Good,” Sister chuckled, “Tell about your magic. Tell me what do you feel when you cast a spell.”
I took a deep breath before I answered her question, like a student at the oral exam.
“I feel a force running through my body whenever I put my emotions in what I want,” I explained hesitantly.
“But… I can see your are not certain of your own magic,” she glanced at me testing me.
“I don't know whether
Grace and I were the first to sit by the table in the restaurant. We waited nervously for Charlotte and Sonia even though we knew each other for over four years and used to spend a lot of time together… at work. The problem was, we never acted as friends, moreover we often argue with each other. Of course, it was good then, because it led us to a lot of marvelous ideas none of us would have come up with alone. Yet, the situation now was slightly more complicated, since the truth was… we needed Charlotte and Sonia desperately, and far more than they needed us.As far as I was aware of, right after losing her job at TVM, Charlotte became a freelance stylist with a financial support from her newest boyfriend, while Sonia… got back to being rich and spoiled, unemployed lady. It was obvious that the kind of job they both would agree on was probably the one that would require minimum work with maximum salary, and concerning our project it was… almost the
After Grace and I convinced the girls to host the show that we were about to produce I left more at ease. I could finally take my mind off of work for a while and focus on practicing magic. I read the rest of the book that Sister gave me and already learnt a lot.I felt like I was closer to make objects move at my will… using wind power, of course. I reorganized Grandma's herbal garden, making all the plants grow faster and making flowers bloom, hoping she wouldn't kill me for it. I even thought of texting her and telling her about it, but then I figured it was much safer for me to let her see it after she comes back…The one element I wasn't able to control, no matter how I tried was – fire. Suddenly, I wondered if Immara could control fire before she was burned at the stake. If she did that would mean that one of the abilities my soul had, was gone because of Immara's cruel fate. It didn't sound fair at all.In all of the stories about some
My heart stopped, I couldn't breathe. I stood there staring at Samil blankly praying in my mind that he would fast deny his own words. If the woman looking at me right now was his current secretary, did it mean that I…“Am I… fired?” I mumbled petrified.“Of course not,” Samil smirked, “I thought that you should have more time to handle the production details and focus on the marketing project. Emma will take your place, and you will have your own office and new position. Take it as a promotion…”My face became expressionless. I felt helpless, everything within me screamed, my insides were boiling, yet all I could do was to stare at him like I entered some non-cognitive state.“You seemed upset,” Samil chuckled, “But you didn't like the office work anyway, did you? Now, you will get back on doing something creative, just like you wanted to.”My mimic muscles formed a f
An hour before the meeting Grace came to my office. We had to get ready to present our project in the most glamourous way possible. I kept reading all of our notes over and over again, although I had it all memorized for more than a week. I was nervous, and overwhelmed by incredible amount of emotions concerning Samil. I was torn, almost like I broke up with a boyfriend minutes before some important exam, my mind was a mess.“Wow… your place is amazing!” Grace obviously saw mainly pros in that situation, “You should be jumping for joy because of your unexpected promotion… But I can see you're not happy at all, right?” she sighed.“I feel like I'm on exile. Even though, this place looks great, and for the first time in my life I am someone's boss, I can only feel like I'm merely acting here, because I don't deserve it all…” I whined.“But you do! You are brilliant, you know about production much more
I spent the first hour of sitting alone in my office cursing at Samil's ridiculous demand. Then I listed the number of shows that would be featured in our program and started imagining what the scenes could actually look like. It was all about guessing. I had to make right predictions and be prepare for every outcome. Until now, Grace and I were ready to act whenever something unexpected would occur, yet neither of us was prepared to think of all the situations beforehand, we made certain presumptions, that was it.I decided to write down 5 to 10 possible variables for each episode. Of course, there were then 3 to 5 short parts of each episode, which made me write somewhere between fifteen to fifty possible scenes and dialog drafts. There were twelve episodes planned for now, which gave me… the hell lot of work!I thought I was going to die when I finished writing the complex script for the second episode. I crawled out of my fancy office to grab at least a choc
I sat down on the chair holding a blanket I found in my hands. My mind started reminding me of what happened bit by bit. “The creaking door sound… someone covering my shoulders… Could it be that it was Samil who walked into my office?” I wondered. I wish I could ask him about it, but for some reason I was convinced that he wouldn't admit it, even if it truly were him. Then I realized something else… I could ask Chris! If the conversation I heard wasn't just in my imagination he could confirm who was he talking to, and what were they talking about… right? “Think again, genius! You are talking about Samil's best friend! Even if he really is mad at his friend for acting unfairly, he would never betray him!” rationality murdered most of my hope. Those uncertainties were killing me. I wished I could cast some kind of spell to find out if the blanket which was now in my hands, belonged to Samil. I already practiced similar spells with one of the books Siste
I got back to my floor with my mood improved by a hundred percent. Samil's behavior brought me hope that perhaps, he wasn't as cold and indifferent towards me as he wanted me to believe he was.I was swaying on my feet, not even magical spells could replace this kind of sleep deficiency, yet before I headed home I wanted to have a little chat with Chris. I knocked on his door, being more certain now that he might already be inside.“Yes?” he called, “Come on in, whoever you are!”I opened the door with a smile, “It's me. Good morning, Chris.”“Kass? Aren't you supposed to go home?” Chris got up from his chair and rushed my way looking me up and down, examining my condition.“You are the second person chasing me home today…” I sighed, turning all around for him to prove I was more or less fine.“Really? Did Samil tell you he was concern…”“No,&r
We sat in the kitchen laughing and crying tears of joy for I couldn't tell how long. I soon found out that the marvelous scent I felt from the minute a came close to the house was the apple pie Grandma was baking. She actually walked into the kitchen as soon as Kira and she entered home. She wanted to surprise me with something sweet and delicious, I genuinely loved her adorable ideas… I waited for some mysterious solution they supposed to find while traveling around the world, yet I didn't want to rush them. I enjoyed every second of spending time with both of them. Their presence was the best remedy for my troubled and aching heart. “Luckily, you remembered to fill the fridge with food. Otherwise, we would have starved to death, we completely ran out of money by the time we came home,” Grandma burst out laughing. “You should have said something! I would have sent you money!” I called agitated and worried that she and Kira could suffer from any discomfort wh