Many people fall in love with the book character they read about. But what if the character you fall in love with falls for you just the same?
I have been in this void for more than a century. People say void is nothing but just darkness, but my void isn’t like that. My void is filled with light, light which took everything from me. My family, my loved one, and my home. Just because I was a wielder of dark magic…
They said it was mercy that I am alive. But what is the point of being alive when I have nothing left. I would have killed myself if it wasn’t for the promise I made to my mom. “A day will come when you will be free again. You, you must survive my child….and help them, when they need you” she said. I would have laughed at her face if her whole body wasn’t drenched with blood, her own blood. Hahaha!! Save them, those same people who took her away from me. But it seemed like her dying wish, I couldn’t say no. But that wasn’t her last word. “Love her for me too”…. her?… who her? My mom had the power to see the future, but only occasionally and that too not by her own will. Did she see her? When will I meet her? Why should I love another and bring her doom too? I had many questions but not even a single answer. I can’t even meet another animal beside my pet, she mentioned her… I laughed. The only living being that was with me was my pet, whom I made with my dark magic. Draco… my dragon. No, not a real dragon, inspired by a dragon. He’s a kind of lizard. Sharp senses, which always helped me with my hunt. He has a unique sense of dance style which he uses to tell me the kind of prey we are having. However today I noticed him doing something, something new which I have never seen before. He seemed restless, but also excited? “Draco! What is it?”
“Draco!”
He seems to be looking at one direction very frequently. So was I cause of him. Then I also sensed it, an opening, something like a mirror. But it wasn’t me that. It was a different face. One that I never seen before but felt a connection. It was HER…
“Love her for me too” My mom had said. Her. Eyes which doesn’t see me but follows a line, then next, and next, and next…wait! Is she reading something? Reading what? And why am I seeing her? “The only existence of you will be in the forbidden books”… Then I remembered. So, she was reading my story. “Oh, cute” I heard her giggling. A sound I had not heard for centuries. I hadn’t heard a sound of another person laughing for a century. It sounded like a melody from heaven. After being in this hell, it was something never knew I was craving. I looked at her the whole time she was reading my story. She would laugh and feel sorry for me. After my everything was destroyed I had promised not to feel anything ever again but here I was smiling.
When I was locked in this void, I shut my positivity away. But on thinking I remembered my friend saying sorry and that he will find a way for me to come out again. But since he didn’t try to stop me from being banished I thought he was just saying to look good. But it wasn’t just a sweet last talk. He was the one who had powers to create portal. We used to spy and have fun with his powers. This screen through which I can see HER gives the energy similar to him. Valec. Now I have one more person to remember with love and affection. She does have nose like him. Is she related to him? A weird thought came to me. Even though being a wizard elongated our lifespan it wouldn’t last for century. “Valek, I wish you happiness wherever you are, heaven or earth.” I finally recited the prayer I had always wanted for him. I felt it, my goodness coming back to me. I had always been a happy child thinking about goodness of everything, and that was the reason of my downfall. I trusted wrong people and did them favor, which I thought would help them. Instead it ruined me. “Eve, come let’s have dinner, I made your favourite. Apple pie!” I saw her face lit up, a large grin on her face. She looked like a child getting her favourite toy. But who wouldn’t be happy to have their favourite food made by their mom. Apple pie. “Uhh!” I hated apples. But I might make her pie if that brings her happiness. Wait, what? Make her pie? I had never had the urge to cook for even myself. It’s been only few days, but I seem to be already in her control. Also, what was my favorite food. I wandered for a long time before remembering. “Chicken stew!”
I exclaimed. She keeps on reminding me of my happy memories. Memories which won’t be written on whatever she is reading. I could tell them to her myself. I thought. “Eve” I mumbled her name.
After a century, for the first time, I had the thought of getting out of this void. Hahaha!! I laughed. It was always possible for me to get out. Because I was the weilder of dark magic and darkness is everywhere. My mother had told me, “love makes us do things beyond limits”. I am going to try just that. And to finally try and make sense of what she meant by saving those fools. Because now I don’t want Eve to be in any trouble.
“Eve, wait for me!” I said before going into deep meditation. For her, for my mom, and for me.