Chapter 390 - Stunning Secrets (2/2)

”Yes?”

”All this time you were here, right? Locked inside the temple?”

”Yes.”

”Then how do you know so much about what happened outside and with Malgino?” Chris asked visibly confused.

”Soulbound. Do you know what that is?” Fergus intently looked at Chris.

Chris knit her brows, she had heard the name but where? Fergus patiently waited as if he could see Chris's mind working furiously. At last, she remembered.

”Soulbound, it's a bond. Usually, the bond manifests itself when someone brings back someone from death, creating a connection between them. Through the connection, the people can feel each other's emotions and thoughts or travel in each other's mind,” Chris said recalling the time she read it for Harry, to explain to him how there was a chance his and Voldemort's connection could work like that. It was so long ago that Chris was surprised that she remembered it. But then her eyes widened. ”Wait, do you mean you have that connection with Malgino? You two know what's going on in other's head?”

”No, just me,” Fergus looked impressed by Chris. ”When I saved him and practically brought him back from death's grasp. I bound him to me, unknowingly. I realized after he left me here that I can feel what he is feeling and what he is doing.”

”Does he know about it?”

”No, he was too focused on his problems to think about his old problems, especially when he thinks that this problem —” Fergus gestured at himself. ”—is solved. He has no clue, this problem is still causing him trouble. This problem is still standing between him and his plans. Just its form is changed.”

”Still giving him problems in a different form?”

”Yes, in your form, to be specific. Christina, the unnatural power you possess which seems to be impossible for a normal wizard or witch, let alone a muggle and squib born, was me. There is one more thing Malgino didn't realize and neither did I at that moment. When I revived Malgino with the Crystal, I absorbed some of its power as well. The power was a lot less than Malgino's but it was there, nonetheless. It took me a while to utilize it because it didn't allow me to leave this place, but I found a way out of it.” Fergus's smile was so painful it gave Chris goosebumps. ”I divided my essence into two parts. The powerful part left this place and the weaker one, a mere reflection of me stayed bound to this place and Malgino, with the pool of my memories. Hoping that one day my other half will find a harbor and bring back that person here. It did.”

Fergus stared at Chris and Chris blinked a couple of times. She was so stunned that she had no clue what to say. She wondered about her powers a lot of times but here she just came to discover Malgino's secrets, not hers.

⟦To be continued⟧