122 Painted memories- Part 2 (1/2)

Heidi was aware with the fact that witches were hated the most in the four empires. With the amount of ambush and death that was caused by the black witches, white witches were also not tolerated but times were slowly changing with the acceptance of white witches but in very few town.

”I knew you were different since the first time I met you. You are very accepting, Heidi,” Lettice wiped her tears away with her hand.

”I think people like us, who are somewhere similar to outcasts are always accepting,” she responded back, ”How did you break it to Rhys?” she asked her curious.

”I didn't have to,” the blonde girl smiled, ”He found out about it when he came to visit me, misunderstanding that my parents had kidnapped me from another family. You see not all black witches are bad nor are all white witches good. My family is one of those who are trying to change. My mother told me that they weren't sure why I had turned out to be human. It might be due to the change of heart they've had you know. But there's no telling if I might change. I am trying to control what little magic runs in my veins but sometimes like now, things just happen without my control.”

Lettice looked like she was ready to see Heidi flee and when Heidi picked both her hands in hers, she smiled at her, ”I think it's quite amazing that you have the witch blood in you. Frankly, I wish I could have a special lineage,” but then the truth was Heidi had no clue where she had come from and why she had ended up in the slave establishment. She was a nobody with no identity. Her past before the establishment was a clean and a wiped out slate.

”Thank you. Thank you, Heidi, for being such a good friend.”

”I hold the same words,” Heidi smiled to see Lettice open her mouth to say something.

”There is something else I need to say.”

”Yes?”

”After my mother found out that I was a human with no reach to magic, she placed a charm name on me to keep the ill omen from following me. Lettice is a charm name. My actual name is Emma.”

”Oh...”

She had always known Lettice as Lettice and now that she had revealed her actual name to be Emma, it took her awhile to get used to the fact about her name and her parents being black witches. When Heidi returned back to the Rune mansion, Heidi found Nicholas with the head council, Reuben walking out from the study room.

”Ms. Curtis,” Reuben noted Heidi's arrival, ”How have you been?”