The Unforgivable Mate Curse (long story ongoing)

Junius Diary - No more a slave

P.O.V Brielle

My head was hurting, the training today was intense, and even looking at all those people, again made me want to just go to a dark place and never get out, too many images, I had to endure some crises when it was too much, but I think I can understand them better, it still feels like I am somebody else, but I now think as if I am looking thru my mask, my curse, is still me but not the inside, only the outside, and someday maybe the inside will be seen again. I was relaxed when Elder Silvanie ended the training earlier, but I was not in the best interests of going back to the packhouse and seeing everyone's eyes on me. So I asked to stay here in the Green House with the excuse of reading the diary since she accepted, now I am looking at the lake, the fish going around, lucky them that they don’t have expressions to see the feelings, the face is always the same. I look and see Elder Silvanie on top reading and concentrating on some papers, time to dream, so I open the diary…

P.O.V Julius

Arriving at my new home

I still remember, I got out of the carriage and in front of me was a big red house, with a porch that surrounds the house,  with white widows that covers all the front,  I look around and saw the forest behind it as the red of the house was just a big flower coming from it, and when I turn around to see what I saw when I open my eyes in the carriage, is the biggest lake I have ever seen, yes I knew the ocean but I never saw a lake this big I could not see the other side of it. ‘Wait did she just said our house? I am going to live in it?’

“I have a lot of explaining to do to you, but first let me show you your room, after a few days of you getting used to us, we will talk.” She looked at me and made a gesture for me to follow. The man that was already at the door opening it, for us to get in, I just follow looking down, like I have always been doing.  After I got in.

“You can look, there is no need for you to submit to us, in this house, and on this land, you are one of us.” I lift my head slowly, hoping to get wiped for looking at the masters, but no whip, just her looking at me, with sad hopping eyes. I looked around the interior was all wood, and the feeling was of, home. I have reached my safe house, my home.

“I will be in the kitchen cooking something for us to eat, the trip was tiring, Edmund will lead you to your room.” He got to her side. “Honey aren’t you forgetting something.” She just looked at him, with an eyebrow up, and he sight. “Sorry about the manners, my wife is just overwhelmed for finally finding you. I am Edmund Dutti, and this is my future wife Silvanie Blue.” She then realized something. I just looked at those two, they were introducing himself to be a slave.

“Ohhh right, sorry dear. Can we know your name child?” She asked with a soft voice. “Junius,” I said looking at her trembling, waiting for something bad to happen. “That is a lovely name. Follow Edmund to your room, you can take a shower before coming back down to eat. You, too dear.” Her voice was like a breath of air. “Junius, just follow me, but keep your head up, or you will never be able to find your way around the house.” I just got my back straight. “Yes sir.” They looked at me. “Dear, call us Edmund and Silvanie please.” I waited for a few seconds trying to understand. “Yes, Mad...” She frowned, “Silvanie.” She smiled.

We went up two staircases, and to a long corridor and almost at the end. “This is your room.”

Edmund opened the door and I looked inside my eyes widen, I was hoping for a small room an attic or something, not this big room with a big window to the forest, I could open the window and touch the trees, I could feel free even being inside the house. I look around there are two doors. Edmund is behind me. To my right, there is a big bed, and when I mean big, 3 adults could fit in that and still had space.

“This is your bathroom.” I went to the door Edmund opened and I saw on one side only tall windows, trees. In the center of the widows, I never saw that before, it looked like a big tub, and a strange sort log coming from the ceiling until the tub that had a cover on the bottom and a big wood was carved as a table in all the extension front the front to the door near the place the tub was. I saw little things on top of it and in the wall there was something that seems to let me see myself, I was shocked, it was the first time I looked at me, and realize I was a kid, I had to grow up, so my mind was already in an age much farther than the image I had in front of me, I looked like the kids I protected on the trip overseas.

“That is a mirror. Is made of silver for you to see your reflection. Bellow there you have a comb, a basin for you to wash your face, the water is delivered every morning by a relative that takes the water from the lake and boils before giving it to the rooms, there you have 3 types of soaps, Silvanie makes them out of the flowers of the greenhouse and beeswax. That is your tub, that carved wood you see coming from the ceiling goes to a basin that we have on the top of the house, where the morning mist water is gathered from leaves, but that water is cold, if you want to take a bath in warm water, you have to ask for boiled water. Silvanie family is very resourceful of everything the forest can offer, so you will see this in here that you will never see anywhere else.”

Edmund's eyes saying all of this had a cautious and warning look like this was only for my eyes, I was clever enough to not comment things to other people. Then he waved for me to come out of the bedroom again and open the other door, and I see clothes, a lot of them fold and put up in planks of wood.

“In this room, you have one chest on this side with the upper pieces you will need, next to it down pieces, shoes on the other side, and capes and belts near the end. I do not know your size, so if anything does not fit just put it aside and we will pick them up, and according to your taste we can get more clothes, one member of the family comes every week to clean and air the clothes.”

I was looking at the room he called it and, I never saw that many clothes in all my life, do I even know how to use it. Edmund was looking at me and smiled.

“I am here to help you with everything you need, even to help you get dressed, although I think Silvanie will want to choose the outfits, I can help you first. How about I go get some hot water, while you see what clothes you like better, and after the bath, I help you get them dressed for you to learn how to?” He just started off the closet and to the room door.

“T-Thank you Mist…” He looked at me with a stern look. “Thank you, Edmund.” Smiling he walked out the door and I looked around. ‘My room, only for me, no more dirt, rats, cockroaches, clothes that barely cover my body. ‘

I walked to the window and opened it, the fresh air from the forest, I could touch the leaf from the trees. I was looking outside when I saw something jumping from branch to branch, I tried to focus on what it was, but I could only see a shadow.

 Whispers ‘Found the Child’ And then nothing. I blinked my eyes sometimes, but nothing, maybe it was because I was tired.

“Here is the water. I must take a few rounds to get the water you will need.” Edmund comes back inside with a big ceramic water jug. “Can I help?” He poured the water into the tub. “If you are not tired enough, I will tell you where the big wood stove is, that we use for the water.” I walked with him, down the stairs, into a small corridor, that leads to a room on the side of the house, that had a huge like shove made of stone, the wood was put bellow, and above basins was warming the water, but there was something different, the basins had a tip that I saw Edmund open for the water to leak to the ceramic jug.

“Grab one of these and do what I am doing, be careful not to touch the basins they are really hot and can burn our skin, the same thing with the water that comes out of them when you see the jug almost done turn this to the side.” I saw him doing it, and did the same, Edmund looking at me like a hawk making sure I did everything like he showed me, and so that I did not burn myself. Then we both got up the stairs again and put the water on the big tub in my room, a few more travels and I had hot water in half the tub, that was enough for me. We also put some water on the basin on the table.

“If you see is too hot, just open that cap on the wooden tube, and push that rope, the rope opens the water on the roof, when you let it go it closes again. Something Silvanie came up, for her plants but we also used it in the house. Try it.” I did what was told, and saw crystal water coming from the wood thing, and I let it go and it stopped, I was fascinated. “Take your bath, I will put some clothes for you in the bed, once you get out, I will be waiting to help you get them dressed. This for you to clean the water after the bath, it will stay in that chair next to your tub.”

He then excused himself and went to the room. I pick up the round things that he called soap, and smelled them, they all smelled like flowers, but I did not know what flower, so I just pick up one and put on the chair near the towel. I removed my clothes and got inside the tub, the water was warm, my muscles were relaxing, and I pick the round thing up, and stared at it.

‘I should have asked how to use it.’ I passed from one hand to another, and the round thing started to become difficult to hold, and there was foam coming from it. ‘Maybe rubbing it.’ I started rubbing on my skin, and the foam stayed in the areas that I passed it on. When the smell was all over my body, I put the soap down and started taking the foam out of the body. After I got up and picked up the towel, it has the design of a wolf in it, I was looking at it for a while, until I feel a shiver down my spine, and put the towel on me, rubbing the water off. I got to the room, and Edmund was reading a book in a chair next to the window. He closed the book and got to my side.

“Let me help you with your hair, you will need an air cut soon.” He picked the towel from my hands, put it on my head, and rubbed my hair. I was frozen, too many people touching in the last days, and this was different, but those events came all to my mind. He senses I was tensing up and stop. Gets a little far from me. “You do it now.” I start doing the same thing he was doing. He looked at the clothes. “The dark is the bottom, or Hose, one leg each side, and bring it up, they are very tight so they won’t fall, then the shirt is simple just to hang around the house, you will be more comfortable, some shoes for you to walk around, this is a wooden house, even with the tapestry, going around foot naked, might get some small wood parts on your skin, and that hurts a lot.”

I started getting dressed, Edmund pointed out if I was doing wrong or right, and after a while, I was fully dressed. “Let’s eat, dinner is already being served.” I looked at him because I did not hear anyone calling out for dinner. He got down and went to a big part of the house that had a huge table in the middle, chairs, an open view of the lake, it was beautiful. Silvanie was putting food on the table, and I never saw that much food in my life.

“Junius, sit down dear you are drooling on the floor.” She said smiling. I got embarrassed, looking at the ground sat on a chair that Edmund was holding for me to sit. After everyone sat down. “I am extremely glad that you are here with us, hope you enjoy your food. Any question you have just ask us.” I looked at my plate and Edmund extended his hand, I give him the plate and he started putting food on it, a lot of it, it was full till the borders. I look at him serving Silvanie and last himself, they started by picking up some strange objects and using them to eat.

“Did you ever used table wear?” I nod. “Easy just use this to put the food in your mouth and use the bread to help you gather the food.” I looked at Edmund and imitated him, it was not easy putting it on top, it fell to the other side, but after a few mistakes, I could get some food in it. After eating, we all got the table up to the kitchen, there was a lady there, that Silvanie introduced as the cook when she could not make it, that pick the dishes from us and was cleaning them. We got to the porch where we could see the lake. It was beautiful, calming, and pure bliss. The rest of the day was just meeting everyone that works in the house, seeing here all the things were, and in the evening, I got to my room, and all that happened in the day was in my head.

‘My house, my family.’ – it felt right. And I lost to the dreamland.