The Keeper Sorceress

Stranger

A girl around my age danced with a boy with long brown hairs and bulky body, they both were lost in each other's eyes and danced as if they were all alone. While everyone else cheered and applaud, not that it looks like they need any. They were surly mates and looks like they couldn't have wished anything better than this. I stood there, far away from the group around the couple and for a minute let myself imagine how everything might have turned out if I was a wolf too, I imagined me and Orion dancing freely while our families surrounded us. I imagined a life where I don't have to hide who I am and I could have been with the boy I like. 

My imagination was interrupted by the loud noise of firework and applaud that followed it, I looked up at the moonless night sky now filled with colorful firework. 

"Princess Arielle?" someone called me and I turned to my left to find a girl approximately ten to twelve years old, with long brown hairs filled with colorful flowers. "Hey" I smiled at her.

"I didn't expect to meet you" she said looking dumbfounded.

I chuckled softly "well now you met me" I said touching her head softly.

That pulled her out of her dumbfounded stated and her expressions changed to utter happiness "My cousins said I would never be able to give you this. But I made it anyway, just in case my luck shines" she said searching for something in her bag, that I did not notice earlier "here" she took out a beautiful tiara made up of colorful flowers and leaves, like ones she is wearing. 

"wow this looks truly beautiful" I said softly touching it.

"You like it?" she smiled brightly and I nodded. Seeing my approval she jumped thrice and clapped careful enough not to ruin tiara. "Can I decorate your hairs with this, it won't take much time I promise!" she asked looking hopeful "sure" I said kneeling before her and moved to take off my tiara, but the girl stopped me "no need to take it off princess, this tiara matches your dress and you already beautiful wearing it"

"But then how will I wear this one" I asked her.

"Well just wait and watch" winking she replied west behind me.

"Yeah, now it is done" she said and left me utterly confused. It takes sometime to decorate someone's hair "yeah?" I said, not sure how to response.

she came back to stand in front of me "Yeah, now your hairs look even more beautiful "

"wow you are fast" I told her and maybe surprise is evident on my face and she read it, she laughed pressing her hand against her mouth "don't look so surprise my her loyal highness, I am a witch it just took imagination, right spell and snap of my fingers." 

"Oh wow!" I said touching my hairs and feeling flowers and leaves. "What is your name?" I asked the girl.

"Urvanya" she replied proudly "and how old are you?"

"I am nine" she said probably with the cutest smile I have seen so far. And for a moment I felt a wave of jealousy rush through me, she is only nine years old witch and here I am a nineteen years old sorceress who couldn't even use her telepathy properly, let alone doing something straight out of my imagination. But that wave of jealously vanished soon. "Well thank you Urvanya" I pronounced her name with some difficulty and hugged her. Before standing up and running a hand over my dress.

"I have made one for princess Yanet too. Do you think she would like it?" Urvanya asked. I looked at her " of course she would, she is like biggest flower lover, I have met so far. I am sure she would love tiara made up of such beautiful flowers." I told her. Girl giggled in response and vanished into the thick crowd, shaking my head I started to walk further and further away. 

I was absentmindedly playing with strands of my hairs, when I bumped into something hard. For moment I thought I walked into some tree, but standing in front of me is a boy or should I say a man. He has brown tousled hairs and black eyes that seems to take in all the color but give out nothing.  My five foot four frame looked insignificant in every way in front of his maybe six plus, he looks almost as tall as my father and Haziel or maybe even taller. His eyebrows are pulled together indicating that he do not appreciate someone bumping into him, I mean no one would but he is clearly a short tempered man "I-I am sorry" I mumbled stepping back, for first few seconds I didn't look up and but when I did, I saw how his expressions have changed. His eyebrows were back in their normal position and he has a strange smile on his face, that kind of unsettled me. 

"Her royal highness" he said, smiling. I looked at him from head to toe, I have never seen him but he looks like some high ranking royal in his all dark clothes that matched blackness of his eyes, which he is not obviously and that leaves only two options either he is from one of the Elite family's maybe some distant relative which again is strange I have grown up among elite kids and I knew about them everything or he is high ranking warlock maybe. I curtsied "may I know your good name gentleman"

"Collin Greens" he replied, I waited for him to introduce himself further but when he made no attempted, I said "I have never seen you around, but you obviously look like you belong from some high class family. May I know which?" generally I am the last person you would ever find questioning someone, this is Yanet's department but with all the uneasiness I am feeling lately I just can't help but interrogate this stranger. 

For a moment Collin just stood there looking down at me and when I say 'looking down at me' I mean he is  literally looking down on me with annoyance, that I could tell he is trying to conceal . Though there is a faint smile on his face that he is maintaining I know there is something beneath that facade good or bad I don't know, yet. Then clearing his throat he broke the silence "I am cousin of Mrs. Marie Chambers. And of course you haven't seen me here before, I live in Khisfire. This is the fifth time I am visiting my mother's homeland" as an afterthought he added "I never met anyone from the royal family either, of course before today"

Khisfire is a small kingdom of witches and warlocks, though it is not their homeland, Night kingdom other name for Caelum was before some witches invited vampires there. Now witches and warlocks consider Khisfire as their sanctuary, where you can find some fraction of every supernatural creature.

"But-"

"I am half wolf and half warlock" Collin replied cutting me "My father lives there and so do I and my mother" there is a hint of annoyance in his voice.

I have heard some wolves rejecting their mates and marrying with one they love, but this is the first time I am actually seeing a crossbreed my case is different  keepers or sorcerer are not bound to accept the one they get as their mate this is the first time I am actually seeing a halfbreed of a wolf and another supernatural creature.

"I would say it is really pleasant to meet you Mr. Green. Sarah never told me that she has a halfbreed uncle" A flash of something passed his face, but he immediately masked it "ouch! do I really look like Uncle material to you" he faked pained expressions pressing his left hand over his heart.

"No you don't actually, but at the end of the day you are uncle of a twenty years old" I said chuckling "umm but anyways why are you here?"

"Just wanted some air" he replied 

"Ahh mm...well let's go back then" I gestured with my thumb. He looked back and somehow I felt like he was calculating something "Yeah sure" he replied looking back at me "may I her royal highness" he asked to hold my hand, I nodded and he held my palm tightly.