with bacon and eggs, tea and orange juice were standing next to the plate. Evanora's plate was standing empty on the other side of the table. She was not up yet, or she was up but was not yet downstairs. His father was already gone for work, he was a simple house doctor. Until his grandparents kick the bucket, then he will inherit the families business. Which makes potions and medicines for witches, he himself was already busy to study herbs and other ingredients. So that after high school could help in the family business, during the summer. Before he goes off to college, to further his knowledge. His mother was already working inside the business, she was not making any potions, but she was handling the sales and shipping.
"Morning." Speaking of the black cat, there she is. "Is Evanora still in bed?" He shrugged.
"I do not know, and I think that she stayed up pretty late. Studying, she seems to me that type of person. And she still has not given me my study book back." He said. His mother slowly nodded and sighed.
"I will go up and look." She said, before turning around and walking out of the room once again. It didn't take long, before she came back with Evanora at her side. Evanora had her cherry red hair in a ponytail, she was wearing a long brown skirt and a white blouse. Around her neck was some kind of bow tie. But he still could see the amulets under the blouse, and around her wrists. She didn't wear any amulets in her ears, which was not uncommon for female black witches. Hex lately it was not even that strange for men to wear amulets in their ears. It became even stylish. "You were right, she was up pretty late. Studying, which is a good thing in my book. Which will make the things I am going to teach you a bit easier." Evanora sat down and Mister Heliot rushed in with a glass jar filled with orange juice.
"Good morning, young lady. What do you want for breakfast? The cooks can make anything you want." Heliot said, and he started to list off all the items.
"I never had Fairy bread before." She said, after he mentioned it. Heliot gave her smile.
"Well, then we are going to change that. I will be back in a while, with fairy bread and tea." He said, Kayne looked at his mother. Who also sat down with her laptop. The tea cup next to her was still empty, but that will change as soon as Heliot entered the room. He placed the fairy bread in front of Evanora, together with a boiled egg. He filled the tea cups, before leaving the room once again. Evanora took a small bite, before almost attacking her breakfast. He did his best to suppress a smile, it shouldn't surprise him that she didn't have anything good, and something as simple as fairy bread. Which in his book was almost as criminal as keeping her under a stunning spell.
"Kayne, can you take Evanora to the greenhouse after breakfast. We are going to jump straight into the deep end, and I do not want to waste any valuable time." His mother said. She drank the tea with one sip, his mother was known for having an iron throat and the tea was piping hot.
"I will mom. What are we going to do first?" He asked, and his mother quickly looked up at him.
"We are going to focus on channelling." She replied. His mouth fell open, channelling another witch was one of the highest level of black witch magic. Was Evanora up for it? She has being studying amulets, beginners magic for years. "Do not worry, I think she will do just fine. But we do not only have years of trauma to undo, but also she needs to learn how to work her magic and become even stronger." Kayne nodded, and sighed.
"But do we need to throw her into the deep end? Will this not backfire?" He asked. His mother looked worried, she thought about this too. But still she was going through with this plan. "Evanora are you done?" He asked, she took her final sip of her tea and nodded.
"There is no day like today." She said, stood up and walked out of the dinner room. He smiled, he liked her spirit. But he knew that this was going to be an up worth battle, and one that was not won in one day. He even doubted that they could win it in this one week. All that he knew was that she was strong enough to at least learn the basics and maybe some more. Evanora walked through the greenhouse and inspected every herd that she was able to find.
"Are you going to work in your families company once you are done with your studies?" She asked.
"That is the plan, I am going to do basic lab work during the summer, to get some experience. Before I go to collage, where I'm going to study herbology. And you do you have plans?" He asked in return. She shook to his surprise her head.
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"No, my plan was to go as far away from my family as possible. I thought I had sent out some applications, but now that I am awake. I am not so sure if I have really done that. Or someone in my family giving me the fake sense of light at the end of the tunnel." She said. "And besides that, now that I know were I am with my dark magic class. Which collage wants to have me in their program?" She looked at the ground. "Besides that, I am already away from my family which was the ultimate goal."
"We will go over those applications later, if they are sent or not. If not, we are going to send them. With the whole story. Also do not worry about the level of your magic. I can feel that it is already stronger than yesterday, so that nighttime studies has done you some good." His mother entered the greenhouse. Kayne was glad to see the sparkle of hope in Evanora's beautiful silver eyes. The small ponytail was bouncing with every step she took. If she is indeed a copy of her mother, he could see why Evanora's father had fallen for her. But he also knew that she would have many suitors. He swallowed, he had seen how the guys at school looked at her. Even if he was there for only half a day, but nobody had made a move. Maybe because of Medea? He didn't know, but even the fact that they looked at her made him feel slightly uncomfortable. "Kayne, did you finish those thoughts of yours?" He wanted to shake his head, but quickly stepped into the witch circle. "We are going to preform the magic lessons in here. And we are not going to stop after this week, but this week we need to make a dent. But before we do that, Evanora I have something for you." His mother gave her a box. "This was given to me, by your grandmother. Who wanted me to keep it safe until the time came to give it to you. From what I understood this is a family heirloom." Evanora opened the box and in it was a beaded neckless. The beads were made out of a black crystal, probably obsidian. "Kanye, why don't you help her put it on?" Good question.
"May I?" He asked. She gave him the box, and he picked the neckless out of it. Carefully placing the string around her neck. "It looks good on you." He said, when she turned towards him, she gave him such a warm smile that his ears were starting to burn up.
"Alright now that is out of the way. Let's begin."
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Kayne sat with Evanora on the ground, they were currently on day three. And there was no sign of improvement. Currently, they tried to meditate, to increase their magic. It was not that Evanora didn't succeed in the other area's of the black magic. She has improved a ton, she was able to conjure up spells, with the use of herbs and salt. She was even tried a spell with blood earlier today, but she was not able to create a link with him. He himself didn't have any trouble linking up with her. Maybe this was still a bridge too far. But that didn't stop her, he needed to give her credit for that. His mother and Evanora went over the collage applications, provided by their school. Which were as they suspected, non-exciting. Not that this stopped his mother to send some out for her, Evanora had also her first council session with his father. Which according to his father was even more eye-opening than he had hoped. Kayne opened his eyes to look at her, today she was wearing her hair in a simple braid. His mother offered to put there some flowers in, but she had declined that. She had chosen for a set of jeans and a black jumper.
"You are staring at me." She said, with a soft smile. "I can feel your gaze, with my third eye." It was another part of her black magic that has grown. She was able to see with her third eye, and she was doing it without thinking about it. "But I still can not find the connection with you. But there is something else." She held up her hand, and a glass of water flew into it. Without her having to say a spell or do some sort of ritual. Which meant that she had channelled another witch, the only question was who. Black witches were not able to channel everybody, that would have being too easy. They needed permission from the other witch to do that, or his eyes went to where the neckless was hanging. Or she was not channelling a living witch, she could be channelling one of her ancestors. Which made her even more powerful, if she would learn how to control it. And maybe in time she is able to channel all of them.
"Well done, Evanora. You got it." He said. "I do not know how you did it. But you did." She placed the glass on the ground, after a few sips.
"Well that is good to know." She said with a sigh. "It took me only three days." He started to chuckle.
"It took me three months, to channel my first witch." He said. "Granted I didn't like the guy very much and he hated my guts. So that might not have helped one bit, but I am babbling. Maybe we should take a break, and have some tea?" He just said that when Heliot entered the greenhouse, with tea and a little saucer filled with small pastries. He placed it all in the middle of the circle and sighed.
"You two have being at it since breakfast, and you two should be eating well." He said. Both of them reached out to one of the pasties on the saucers. It was one with pumpkin spice, another thing she had discovered she liked. He quickly removed his hands.
"You take that one. I will take the one with strawberries." He said, grabbing that one. She chuckles and put the pastery in the mouth. A bit of butter cream got stuck on her noise, without her knowning it. He reached out to her and whipped it of. Just noticing that their faces were close together. A bit to close.
"Do I interupt something?"