Dalila stared at her reflection in the small river. Her face was unrecognizable. So ugly that she wanted to claw her eyes out to avoid ever seeing it again. She couldn't understand what had happened. How had she ended up like that? Celeste's blood was supposed to make her immortal. Not hideous. Where was she supposed to go looking like that? She'd already tried to cast a spell to change her appearance but it hadn't worked. Her magic was gone. She'd died like Celeste but had come back looking like some demon and it was all thanks to that brat and her father. For the first time ever, she regretted summoning him. Not that when she'd cast the spell she had been summoning him in particular. Back then she has only wanted a phoenix. In truth she hadn't believed the spell would actually work. If

