Arabelle

Chapter 38 - Magical Information

Mrs King’s POV

After Richard had left, I was still very restless and I kept thinking about the smell of the magic emanating from his body, it didn’t come from on top his skin, it came underneath his skin and for that to happen to someone without magic was very unusual, it meant that magic had been used on them and that the magic had been directed at their blood and using such magic was very painful on the person it was used on,

If I found out that girl used that type of magic on my dear son, it will be the end for her, I kept pacing up and down in my room, Richard will never tell me what happened and I could not just walk up to the wench and ask her what happened yesterday,

Then suddenly, I had an idea that brought an evil smile to my face, it was the perfect solution for all my problems, I was almost disappointed that I hadn’t thought of it before,  there was no way this won’t work and I could get everything I wanted with one move.

With a smile on my face, I walked out of my room and headed to the laundry room, luckily it was  empty when I got there but what I had come for was lying in the laundry basket, it was the shirt Richard had worn yesterday, and even from where I stood, I could perceive the smell of tainted magic, when magic was tainted, it had annoying smell, it was didn’t smell completely bad and it neither did it smell completely good, it was somewhere in between and I found it maddening,

I walked towards the basket which the shirt was kept in, I pulled it out, up close the smell was even stronger, it was just right for my spell to work, without wasting more time, I walked out of the room closing the door behind me,

I almost ran into some of the maids on my way out, they were so startled at seeing me here that they weren’t bothered by the fact that I was holding a shirt in my hand, I waved them away and walked past them, walking as elegantly as I normally did,

I released a breath I didn’t know I had been when I got to my room, I held the shirt out in front of me and a wicked smile stole into my face,

All this while, I knew Arabelle was alive and I had felt her magic many times when she was close by but I didn’t know who she was and how I could find her, but with the help of her magic oozing from Richard’s shirt, I could locate her easily and when I did, the real fun could finally begin.

Without wasting any more time, I spread the shirt out on the ground, then I rushed over to my wardrobe, I flung it open and shifted a few clothes out of the way, I found what I was looking for, a small handle, I grabbed it and pulled and it revealed a hidden compartment with a wooden box inside, I grabbed the box and pulled it out, I placed on the floor and opened it, inside was something I hadn’t used in a very long time, it was called a Yatrec in the ancient tongue but it was normally known as a gazing bowl,

It was a small silver bowl that looked no different from a small serving bowl, it had markings engraved on it, and the marking were in weird symbols that were hard to understand at first glance but after close inspection, you could see that the symbols were in the shape of animals and trees, each animal and tree had its own meaning but I wasn’t going to need that today,

I took a bottle from the drawer beside my bed, it contained a clear liquid, this was water gotten from the earth, my magic was elemental and I always needed something binding me to one the elements for my magic to work, once my magic was so very pure but I felt it made me weak so I sought magic from sources, I had done unspeakable things to garner power but there was always consequences for such using such magic, but I will never accept the consequences.

I poured a little of the water in to the Yatrec and placed it on the shirt, I knelt on the floor and spread out my hands, I began chanting the spell that will help me find Arabelle,

“Elissia metrec wa izalde ma ithsta” I chanted it repeatedly until tiny blue sparks laced with black began to rise from the shirt, they rose in countless sparks until they finally clustered in to a lump and hovered right above the Yatrec, I concentrated my power on the flying lump and slowly lowered it into the bowl, the markings on the bowl immediately began to glow, the lump dissolved into the water and a blurry image began to form, still I kept chanting until finally I could see her, there she was, her pretty face, she was dressed in modern clothes and beside her was a woman I recognized as someone I worked with, she was Melissa Mavericks, then the image shifted and this time it was a moving image and Richard was in it, so was Arabelle, she was dressed in a red gown and her eyes were glowing blue, she looked angry and she was throwing shiny light balls at Richard, then she collapsed and the same woman from the previous image came rushing over yelling the name ‘Bella’ and then it shifted again and there was Arabelle and Richard again, Richard was kneeling before Arabelle, he looked like he was in great pain, and she was busy chanting, I recognized the spell and I realized, I had been right, she had used a magic that attacked the blood,

 I felt my blood boil in anger, how dare she harm my son, finally the image disappeared and the Yatrec seized to glow, I fell back to the floor panting, I was exhausted, it had been so long I used magical objects and I had almost forgotten just how much energy they required to work, it was exhausting but at least it wasn’t in vain, I had gotten the information I needed to find Arabelle, Melissa Mavericks was the key, a smile crossed my face,

I stood up with difficulty and walked over to my bed, I sat down on it and grabbed my phone from on top the bedside drawer, I switched it on and searched through the contact list until I came across the contact I was searching for, I pressed the call icon, after a few rings, the call was answered,

“Good day Madam” a voice said,

“Hello Barry, it’s been a while” I said,

“What can I do for you Madam?” Barry said,

“I need you to find all you can on a woman called Melissa Mavericks, I want it before the end of the day” I said,

“Consider it done Madam” Barry said,

“I will be expecting you then” I said and hung up,

I lay down on the bed with a smile, “I look forward to seeing you soon my dear daughter in law” I said to myself, the evil smile still pulling at the corners of my lips.