Cursed Daughter

Chapter 19

"H-how?"

    I looked down at my hands and arms looking for marks that I knew were not there. There was no way that fire didn't touch me. My whole body was covered in scars showing what happened the last time I was surrounded by flames. If I had this ability the whole time then why was I even scarred? Why couldn't I save myself? I cost myself my only other family and home but when I wasn't trying I used some power I've always had. My head was starting to pound as my mind swirled with endless questions. Every time I finished one, another would start and it was all slowly making me angry.

    "Your powers were never really gone."

    I looked up and saw Trina standing in the doorway behind us. She was leaning against the doorway with her arms crossed. By the look on her face you could tell she was still annoyed.

    "What do mean they were never gone? I remember them being taken away! Was it just all a lie then?!" I screamed at her.

    "In the case of your powers actually being gone then yes that was a lie. They were never actually bound but instead your memories of them were, rewritten, for lack of a better term. You do correctly remember that your trainer bound them, but when they brought you to us I didn't bind them permanently. Instead I chose to create a potion for your memories and make you truly believe they never existed to begin with."

    I felt anger rise in me. Trina had known about my abilities and how to get them back and she never said anything before now? Why would she not bring it up, seeing me and Dimitra waste time and effort into finding a solution?

    "Why did you not say anything!" Dimitra yelled, breaking my thoughts. I looked at her and saw the anger clear in her face. "You watched us waste time we don't have trying to find a solution. Is this amusing to you?"

    She looked ready to leap at her sister when Trina spoke up, "I didn't know you would search the journals. Austin had to have more of her memory back to even begin even basic training! I wasn't even sure if she would actually be able to use any of her powers since I had never done a spell like that then or since. We also do not know enough about what goes on is the walls of the Academy to even know if she would have been taught any control."

    Dimitra slowly calmed back down to only a scowling face. "Did you know Austin was going to be taken to the Academy?"

    I froze. I never even considered that someone I trusted would have possibly known my future. Did Trina actually know that Dimitra wasn't going to be able to hide me forever? Could she have been the reason that I had been found?

    "No I did not," Trina said. "There were enough horror stories back in those times I wouldn't have subjected a child to purposeful torment. Though if Austin believed her powers were actually gone then why would Garrett have kept her for so long? His prize after decades of hunting only for him to find out she no longer held this great power."

    "I never thought of that. Unless her crossing the border was part of his plan."

    Katerina spoke for the first time, "Mother, what if they buried their memories so deep they couldn't recover them?"

    We all glanced at each other unsure of what to think. Katerina could be correct and if she was then how much time did we really have? Me and Kyle know that our memories had been rewritten several times. We knew things history books would never have written about but we also know how to work modern technology we have never used while at that horrible place. We both aged slowly only to think we met at the same age as new students and grew at the same time. All the manipulation was probably too much to undo and with Dimitra and Trina being the most powerful witches in history, Garrett would have to had known they would be able to under everything.

    "How much danger did we just get ourselves into?" I asked.