Chapter 10
The night is warm as she walks down towards the city, still spewing the noises of cars late into the night with all the bright lights almost never ending, yet it can still be considered peaceful she walks throughout the city rarely stopping for something other than a car. The forest is a nice break from everything in the city though her house is one that stands strong throughout the decades, as she enters candles alight with her passing reaching the door to the basement she slowly heads past collecting an assortment of jars in her basket as she moves through to the door to the medical room in her basement and her face drops to one of mourning, she goes through each bed with practice moving the patient to reduce their body malforming to the bed, sitting them up to have them drink the potions and sighs once she’s completed and voice just above a whisper announces to the room, “Immortals I have yet to break the curse and I still fear I may never, I have gone through thousands of books but my chances over the decades are dimming. There have been no new immortals born for the past decade and although medical influence is beginning to evolve and new cures for things are worked on every day, I fear the one place that I need for the books is the only place I cannot enter. The empire has strengthened to over what the god of gods couldn’t have ever achieved by simply absorbing magic, but this empire wouldn’t even dare to think absorbing magic is the way to go they use willing people born from families that consider it as an honor to serve the empire, I don’t think I ever could join an empire of that size. It will fall due to the fact history has stated multiple times it’s impossible to control something that large without having gaps in knowledge of what’s happening it’ll be too big to control.” Estelle turns with a sigh with the basket and empty jars, leaving them on a shelf she exits the basement, Casper sleeping soundly on the ground floor, she can lock the door without an issue creating a barrier to hide the door she prepares for tomorrow.
4am rolls around and the air is silent, the witch gets ready for the day in robes warmer for the cold chill of the morning but loose enough not to heat her throughout the day. Carnations paint the black fabric gold and her inner robes being snow white complement the colour theme, tying her hair up in a bun letting some of the green hair flow out like an overgrown weed, she begins to go collecting Casper's sleeping body with her she rests it on her shoulder and goes down towards the café a walk that takes about half an hour.
Rayne is being fussed over by her mother by the time she arrives, the girls hair in a long uneven braid but better than the puffball of hair it usually is in, Rayne noticing the additional presence greets her with tired excitement before being cut off by a yawn. Nova takes it as her que to leave calling out behind them back toward the shrine “I’ll see you home for dinner darlin’ and thank you Madam Estelle for taking care of her, have fun you too!”
The walk to the witches home would be expected to have been one done in silence when considering the time of day it was unfortunately for Estelle, Rayne had every question under the sky to ask her so the journey was one of back and forth questions and answers till they reaches rows of flower beds, each with a variety of in flowers, most just beginning to bloom for and Rayne jumps in excitement as the witch opens the front door welcoming her in “Well child, this is my house please refrain from touching any of the flowers, herbs and vegetables strung up and I’ll give you your first task.” The girl in question about to yell in disagreement at being called a child stops just before as she notices her hand reaching towards a bundle of basil. Wondering why basil is strung up Rayne asks so. “I dry my own herbs to preserve them the same with the vegetables I do sometimes gift them when I have extra. Anyway, I need you to begin watering the flower beds if it happens any later, they’ll fry in the sun.” Passing the child an apron she directs her back outside passing her a watering can mentioning to water everything evenly as she gets the books ready to be taken to Bruno’s.