Evelyn's POV
That little old hag! She took me away from my love, Frederick. I have to escape, but how? I was knocked out.
Just let me die. I literally have nothing left to live for.
I woke up,I was in a room with tattered walls,a sink by the right corner with a mirror just above it,the cracks on the wall gave me sweet pain as to what just happened. I could see the rats fighting over a spoilt piece of meat.
I felt too depressed, a looked Into myself with the mirror then I made a choice, it's better to die now than to suffer the calamities to come.
So I broke the mirror with my fist,picked up a piece and started piercing my skin. Was it painful? It was as painful as hell but it relieved me of my situation.
Then that mage walked in,Matilda. She gave me my uniform,told me to prepare for the training tommorow in the green house.
Seriously, I can't even kill myself on time.
My deformity was my hunch back. Why was I born this way,I don't know,probably because of my quarter elf right. I hope so. I was also given this book to write on,so I think I'll use it as a journal, I'll write several messages to my future self, that is, if She'll even be alive. Let's see.
End of POV
The next day came,Matilda waited in the green house,on the podium before her were a lily and a stone,same was the rest of the tables. Evelyn and some other girls walked in.
"As you may know,to perform magic as a human,you must be willing to sacrifice, it's like a transaction." Matilda said as she held the flower and the stone on both hands.
Matilda spoke in a tongue long forgotten. The language of Elders. Then her stone levitated as her flower withered.
One of the girls felt she too could do as much. So she tried levitating her stone too,so it worked or so she thought.
Her hands began to rot and she cried out screams of agony.
"Like I said,a transaction." Matilda scolded.
Then all the other girls corrected themselves and performed the spell.
All were able to perform the spell, all except Evelyn.
After the green house, Evelyn cried in her room over and over again. Then she looked into her journal and started writing.
"Day one of staying in this wretched place. I tried to do magic,but it didn't work. The greenhouse was just a fluke, I'll probably do better next time. Matilda is as evil as ever. I miss him,I loved him. I lost control once she took me."
"You didn't lose control,you never even had it to begin with." It was Matilda, she read her thoughts.
Evelyn turned to look up to Matilda, then she loudly sucked her teeth at her. Then Matilda dragged her hair saying
"Listen little piglet. Know your place or I will torment you in ways unimaginable." Matilda threatened.
"Then do it. After all what could possibly be worse than this?" She provoked.
"You were never in control, not once. You don't even have control over your own life. But I do. Tommorow we gather at the inn." Matilda said storming out.
To be continued...