Twenty minutes ago
"How did you find me?" Amore was surprisingly calm when Ava approached her. She was enjoying her tea, sitting languidly as she stared at the endless garden in front of her. The sunset created a beautiful silhouette that seemed to enhance the purple flowers in front of them.
"It wasn’t that hard," Ava sat opposite Amore.
"So, you are indeed a dream walker."
"Not exactly," Ava said. At least, she’s not an expert at dream walking. She’s learning. Soon, she would be proud to call herself a dream walker.
"What did you do to my Romeo?" Amore asked.
The fact that Ava was able to get out of an illusion that was supposed to overwhelm anyone was enough proof for Amore. Ava was not just a witch. She was a dream walker.
In the past, Amore had investigated Ava but there was simply no indication that she was a dream walker. From Amore’s research dream walkers immediately stand out because they often use their abilities unknowingly. Death would follow them around. Ava’s past has something like that but so are other witches who grew up in an orphanage.
Moreover, Ava couldn’t control her abilities simply because she didn’t learn how to control them.
How could someone like that put her son in another dimension?
Amore realized how wrong she was.
Ava was someone that could easily counter illusions because she could practically control someone’s subconscious using their dreams.
Amore looked at Ava. It seems that she still couldn’t control it yet. Amore concluded that this was because Ava didn’t start controlling her gifts until she was already an adult. This was very possible since she actually didn’t learn anything in her teens just like a normal witch.
"Where is my son?" One thing that Amore knew is the fact that Ava was already in control right now. This was included in the spell that Ulva gave her. She cannot let Ava see her. However, it was also indicated that Ava would never see her as she would be locked in her own illusion. All she had to do was supposed to stay here and wait until she woke up.
And that would only happen if Ava had gone in too deep inside the illusion.
Yes, the longer the time Ava spend inside this space, the harder it would be for her to get out. It was like a trap.
But once Ava sees her... everything is done.
Because of this, Amore chose not to act recklessly and antagonize Ava. She wanted to live. She wanted to survive.
Antagonizing the one who controlled the illusion is simply a stupid move.
"I don’t know what you are talking about." Ava smiled. "So who was it?" she asked.
"What?"
"The spell didn’t belong to you," Ava uttered. "You just learned it."
"How sure are you— "
"Your control would have been better if you learned it a week ago."
Amore pursed her lips.
"I want to leave this place," Amore said.
"You can’t," Ava responded. "Not until I say so..." The smile on Ava’s face was too gentle, too kind, it made her suspicious. There is no way that Ava was smiling at her out of kindness.
"What do you want?" Amore asked.
"No... it should be the other way around."
"What?"
"What do you want, Priestess," Ava said. "This is my world now. It means... I can give you everything that your heart desires. Like..." Ava waved her hand and a tall Romeo appeared not far away from them. He looked around, confused before his eyes met his mother’s. "That. I can give you that."
Amore got up, her eyes wide.
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"As I said... this is my world now. I can do whatever I want. That includes giving your people, a new life. It was called an illusion for a reason." Again, Ava smiled. But this only made Amore nervous instead of making her feel relieved.
"Mom?" Romeo’s voice reached her. Almost immediately, her heart raced with pure joy.
"Stop that," Amore said. "I know that’s not my son."
"Really? Do you really want me to remove him from your sight?"
Conflicted, Amore stared at Ava’s smiling face before dragging her eyes towards her very much alive son. She knew that this is just an illusion. It wasn’t real.
But seeing her own son made her rethink everything.
"Then I will gladly— "
"Don’t!" Amore interrupted Ava. "Don’t do that. Don’t.... Just.. . Let me talk to him."
"Not unless you give me what I want," Ava’s answer was very predictable but hearing the woman say it with that same gentle smile on her face was like rubbing salt to Amore’s wound.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"Who gave you the spell?"
"Don’t you already know the answer to your question?’
"So it was Ulva." Ava nodded. Some spells prohibit witches from telling the name of the one who taught them. Ava assumed that this is one of those spells.
"Then give me the spell," Ava held her hand towards Amore. "Teach me the spell."
"What?"
"Teach me."
"This is an illusion to learn a spell you need to be connected to nature. You cannot just— "
"The fact that you cannot do it doesn’t mean that I can’t," Ava uttered. "Teach me the spell and I will let you stay here with your son."
"What about my body?"
"What about it?"
"Are you going to keep it safe?"
"No?" Ava snorted. "Now, why would I do that? It’s either, you give me the spell and you stay here with your son or you keep the spell and you stay here... alone. Which one was it?"
"You are not going to let me live?"
"You are supposed to die in the first place. Ulva knew that I am strong. You were nothing but a sacrificial pawn. Don’t worry, I am giving you a wonderful funeral when I get back."
"You— "
"Choose!" Ava’s smile vanished. "I don’t have much time." The spell was tiring. Using her gift was exhausting. And if she keeps on delaying it, she would soon wake up without achieving anything.
"Alright." Amore touched Ava’s hand. She closed her eyes and when she opened them, Ava was no longer there.
"Romeo?" Amore immediately turned toward her son who was standing a few feet away from her. He looked like he was in a daze but it was pretty obvious that he recognized her.
And that... was enough.
Amore smiled as she held Romeo’s hand.
"Don’t worry... we are getting out of here."
Then she started chanting...
"Naive..." Ava’s voice echoed inside her head.
"Did you really think I am going to let you leave after what you did? Amore... I am not that stupid." Then a burst of loud laughter echoed as the world in front of her slowly collapsed.
....
Ava opened her eyes and immediately held her head. Her headache was too excruciating, it felt like someone was trying to open her skull. Does that make sense?
Probably not.
But controlling an illusion that massive and complicated made her weak. The fact that she had to hold on for too long just to talk to Amore made her even weaker.
This was the first time that she actually used everything that she had inside that place. One mistake and the illusion would have swallowed her.
She got up and realized that she was already in her room. Then she felt it...
The blood thirst and ferocious anger hit her core like a large boulder.
Matthew! She thought as she ran out of the door.
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