A Phoenix, you say?

My eyes widen gradually. A Phoenix, he said. His hand caressing my back gives me goosebumps all over. I didn't know how my body reacts to his physical touch when my mind was absent from the scenario. I gulp a huge amount of my saliva and stare into his eyes.

Maybe I hold answers unknown to people. That Phoenix... might be my mother.

Yes.

I was told, or rather self discovered the fact that I was a cursed offspring between the love of an ordinary man and an extraordinary Phoenix species. I didn't know much about their love story, but it prevailed just until I turned nine and then everything went downhill.

Love is a bond between two people that is expected to last forever. But my parents believed that even a spark of a moment is love. And that spark existed only for a decade before they separated ways and left me with an untold secret.

That I had a recessive Phoenix blood flowing inside me.

Alas.

But what was the wish the 'Phoenix' asked to this witch? I was mightily curious.

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