HPL&HP Flowers blooming at sea

Chapter 1. Mysterious blue glow

      July, not even in rainy wet England, in those infrequently great weather with sunshine, you still can feels like annoyingly damn hot just because it’s summer.

      Except seaside, i mean gravel(which painful your feet) and really high strong waves, seaside.

      “Astrid! Mrs. Adam is calling us to go back!” A ginger girl just stand by the sea and staring those black reef, blankly. Sea wind strongly blowing her thin clothes , with her long hair and her slim body, just like three flags hanging on a flagpole.

      The girl lift her arm above her head, let the sunshine cross her fingers shine on her transparent amber eyes, seems like she didn’t hear anything. The girl, who was shouting to her, running from the bare grass with the same thin clothes, scared out a bunch of seagulls.

      “Astrid, you knows that Mrs. Adam don’t like you at all, if you’re late then your birthday will be in confinement room. Let’s go!”

      She try to pull her, but Astrid don’t even move a little, just pointing a high reef in the waving sea and ask: “Lilian, is that reef, glowing?”

      Lilian see though the way she pointed, some kind of unawarely terrified looks showing of her face, talk with a fake laugh: “You are scaring me again Asta, that just a normal rock, please let’s leave, even Mrs. Adam couldn’t find out we weren’t there, god damn John won’t let us be that easy.”

      She try to pull Astrid again but still not work. Astrid shake off her hand, take some steps into the sea, wet her shoes. The water is so cold, and her take more steps, then are her legs, her chest …

      “You can’t swim! Astrid, come back!” Lilian scared like hell, run forward trying to catch her, and stoped just right before the wet sands because she can’t swim either.

      She is yelling: “Mrs. Adam! Astrid is drawing!” She try to use her voice to notice the only adult.

      Snow Orphanage, a Christian church orphanage, shelter a lot of orphans who were abandoned or no more relatives: Astrid Snow was “abandoned”, Lilian Leonel was another.

      Astrid’s eyes can only see the glowing blue slowly going up from that reef, like a swirl, and her mind is full of mysterious whispering.

      She can’t finally touch the sand, just using her intuition to swim, cold like hell, but nearing.

      Touch the end, the rock almost cut her palm, her muscles creaming with pain and trembling, but she climbs up.

      On the glowing blue reef.

      The moment when her finger tip touches that blue swirl, all those glowing blue lines go into her body, after that Astrid got pain with some highly warm feelings up on her head.

      She falling down like a disconnected puppet.

      “…Annabel, you know you can used ancient magic to be immortal, then why bother to create theses ‘legacys’?” “Sebastian, dear, don’t you think being immoral is way boring for us?”

      When the church bells rings, Astrid opens her eyes in a really dark cramped place, with a dry throat, whole painful body and a heavy head.

      Almost immediately she’s coming back from her strangely man and woman’s dialogue into real life. She is lying on the ground in the confinement room back to Snow Orphanage, only wearing her tattered thin clothes, fever due to soaking cold water, no water, and of course, no food.

      She barley can move, just staring the door gap with tinny light though it, try to remember her dream.

      In her dream there was a really gorgeous woman with her glowing blonde hair, soft green eyes, dressy yet eccentric robe, and also, a handsome brown hair man intimately with her.

      Annabel and Sebastian.

      A loud noise wake her up from her contemplation, she crying to get up to look at those gray eyes from the gap on the door: “Mrs. Adam.”

      Lily Adam is this orphanage newest and longest director, as a believer, she trying so hard to convince herself that the only child, which every move is weird, Astrid Snow is just sick, she is not a child of satan, son of devil.

      Not even after young Slinton who was hanged on the bell tower after he had a fight with Astrid, or weirdly got broken bones Mr and Miss Snow, and the others whatever strange and unexplainable accidents happened, Adam still trying to, “fix her”.

      “You have a visitor.”Adam sighed, with blunt tone. And then keys making noise, the door is opening.

      Astrid is really shocked.

      From the age when she got memories, she was being told that she was an orphan who was abandoned by her parents at the gate of the orphanage, that’s why she got the name from an old nun and a family name from the donor of this orphanage: Astrid Snow.

      In her limited ten years, oh it’s already ring the new day 12 o’clock bell, then eleven years life, she have no visitors. No visitors, no adoption, none; none of anyone was for her.

      Mrs. Adam walk in, dragging her up: “Stand! Stand up! You don’t have bones? You must be good in front of that sir, he looks like a real elegant person. If you have chance he can adopt you, then you’ll have a chance, the best chance to go to the hospital to cure your weirdness evil sickness …”

      “I’m not sick.” Astrid hangs her head, whispering, again, “I’m not, sick.”

      Adam raise her eyebrows and staring at her, seems like she wanna scold her, but held back, just dragging her out of the dungeon.

      Sunshine almost kills Astrid’s eyes. By the entrance, the man in the suit looking at those children running in the yard, turns his head when he heard them movement: “Ah, you must be dear miss Astrid.”

      The man holding a black wooden cane, walk to her, a gentle smile on his softly contoured handsome face: “I’m Christian Sallow, a Ancient Runes professor of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.”

      When Astrid finding out his look, she shocked too much that she losing her balance and strength to fall down, almost, Christian catch her.

      This “professor”, looks too similar to the man and woman in her dream!