Kayne shot back towards his corner, that was close, a bit too close. Would they have kissed, if his mother didn't enter the greenhouse? She didn't know the answer to that question. But she felt her cheeks burn up. He was looking sheepish too, so he was thinking... She didn't know what he was thinking, all she knew was that their faces for a moment were very close to each other.

"Oh, good the two of you, already have some tea. And our cook did really well with those pastries, maybe she has one more sweet tooth to satisfy." She said, with a soft sigh. "But how did it go?" Kayne started to tell his mother that she was able to channel someone. But he believes that she didn't channel someone alive. "Well, that takes a very special of band between a witch and said ancestor."

"Can it be her mother?" Kayne asked, and it was strange that he currently had a clear mind. She didn't have a clear mind at the moment. Hex all she can think about was the almost kiss.

"It can be, it can also be her grandmother." His mother said. "The only way we can know that for sure is a seance. But I am of the state of mind to let the dead rest. If they want to help with their magic, I am fine with that. But I am not going to disturb them any further." Evanora nodded slowly. The fog in her mind started to lift.

"I am agreeing with you, madam Le Rouge." Evanora said. She knew that Kayne's mother didn't like to be called that. But Evanora was not comfortable to call her anything else. "I am going to do my other homework." She got up and grabbed another pastry and her cup of tea.

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The greenhouse was over all her favourite place inside this house, but her room came pretty close to that. She has now fairy lights hanging around her bed. She loved to sit on her rug, with her back against her bed. Which she was doing right now when Kayne knocked on her door. She was just busy noted down her last answer to the maths homeworker, school had sent them a crap load of homework. It was more homework than she had ever done, even when she also did Medea's homework. Maybe they got the memo that she was no longer on an information diet, or this was another attempt to stun her magic practice. Because it would take away a lot of time to make it. If she didn't have Madam Le Rouge's guidance, or rather Madam Le Rouge's attitude to magic lessons first other homework later.

"Hey, how are you doing?" Kayne asked. She sighed and placed down her pen. She closed her notebook and lay it next to her. Grabbed another book off the stack. Herbology. She smiled, it was one of her best subjects, and she was pleasantly surprised that she was not far behind with that at all. But it was still a lot. He sat down on the rug and sighed. "Yeah, I wanted to ask you this. Is homework always this crazy?" She shook her head.

"No, even for a week's worth, this is a lot." She replied. With a sigh, she opened the book and another notebook. "But there is not enough homework to keep me down. Even if I need to work on it, until the sun comes up." She noted down her first answers, he looked at her in awe. "What?"

"It is really nothing, I am just surprised how ..." He said, and he was weighing out the words. "Resilient, tough, strong, smart. You are." She looked down at the notebook, she was lost for words. But she knew the answer to the next question, so she wrote it down to keep busy. "It is a good thing, you know." She nodded, still lost for words. "I am sorry about earlier." Why was he apologizing? Once again she looked up at him, he had the brightest green eyes. Grass green, or maybe even greener. She was not sure about what kind of plant or shade this type of green it was. He was so handsome, maybe a bit too handsome for his own good. She had seen how some of the girls were looking at him, in the half a day he spent at their school. Even the white witches were looking at him, and they knew that he is a black witch. She had even seen Medea look at him, with the same kind of hunger, she herself were currently feeling.

"I am not." She said finally. He looked at her with a small smile.

"What?" He asked.

"I am not sorry, about what happened earlier." She said, her cheeks started to burn up. He came scooted a little closer, and butterflies stared to fill her stomach again. It also happened to her earlier, she lay the notebook away. And did the same, for the second time that day, their faces were inches away from each other. She closed her eyes, and she could feel his breath on her skin. His lips softly brushed against hers, and she leaned into it. The butterflies in her stomach went crazy, and she wanted this feeling to last forever. But a knock on the door broke them up, she wanted to curse at the person responsible. Which was mister Heliot.

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"Ohh, I am so sorry. But next time, if you want privacy, close the door." He said. Kayne nodded slowly, and sighed.

"What is it, mister Heliot?" Kayne asked.

"There is a full moon tonight, and the cook wants to know what kind of moon cake you want? She of course already knows that Evanora might not know which flavour she might like." He said. She looked confused, she knew that all kinds of magic were charged by the sun and the moon. And the full moon, was especially known to be a supercharger.

"It is a family tradition, we always eat moon cakes during the night of a full moon. Our cook mixes in some special herbs, that helps us connect with our magic." He explained. "She knows what I like, strawberries. I think that Evanora would like dark chocolate." Mister Heliot nodded.

"I will inform the cook." He said, and he closed the door. So they were alone once more, but she closed her eyes. The moment they had before was gone, and there was so much homework to be done.

"I need to go back to my homework." She said with a sigh. He nodded, and got up. She wanted to tell him to stay, or to bring his books in here. So that they could study together, she had learned that she liked studying with him. During their black magic lessons.

"I will be back in a short second, I am going to get my books." He said, and he left the room.

*****

They did study, until Kayne's father came to get her for one of their sessions. She didn't want to go, but it was part of her healing progress. It was still too early to say this for sure, but she was helping her. He made her feel at ease, and heard. And that was something she never felt before. After their session, it was time for dinner. And once again it was tasteful and warm. The meat was perfectly cooked and seasoned, the same goes for the potato's and veggies. The moon cake with dark chocolate filling was so nice, and just calling it delicious was doing it a dissevers. She didn't know what the cook of her family was going, but this was so much better. Even the cold food, was poorly seasoned. She also was not used to the well-prepared breakfasts in the mornings, at her families' estate she would get a bowl of tasteless gruel. And mister ... was really upset when she asked for some honey to make it a bit sweeter. But right now, she was in some kind of heaven with good food and even better company. Kayne looked at her with a large grin on his face, during dinner. She only dreaded that fact that all this came to an end, and she needed to go back to the large pile of homework that was waiting for her in her room.

"Mister Heliot, can you bring some tea to my room? I am going to need it." She said, when the butler came in to take away the plates. He bowed his head slightly.

"I will, young lady." He said. She nodded and went to her room. She sat down on the rug, and opened the first open. Kayne didn't enter her room, this time around. Not even to pick up his books and his homework. Mister Heliot, brought her some tea later in the evening. "Your tea, young lady. I need to say this, but they really work you to the bone at that school of yours. They didn't when I was your age, so many moons ago. But then again, I am not a candidate to become the next witch queen."

"Do you really believe in that?" She asked, he nodded.

"I do, young lady. And so did your mother." He replied. "And your mother was not the type to believe things easily, but she spent hours upon hours studying everything there is about this whole prophecy. Which made her, me and madam Le Rouge a believer. Your sister and you are the new white and black princesses, and there in nothing the two of you can do about it." She nodded and took a sip of the tea. "I am going to leave the pot behind, so that you can pour more. I just poked my head around young master Kayne's door. I have done that for years, to see if everything is alright. But the young lad, is fast a sleep. Sitting at his desk, using one of his books as a pillow." She needed to chuckle, it was not hard to imagine that. Still, it was thanks to the tea, that she was not suffering the same fate. "Do not work until too late, young lady. Tomorrow is another day, where you can enrich yourself with knowledge." She nodded and took another sip of her tea. She once again went over her notes, and sighed. Why, in hex name why. Did she need to write a paper about the black and white war, why o hex, why did she need to do all of this homework in the first place? She knew for a fact that this homework wouldn't affect her academic score. Maybe if she copied it, she could send it to one of the universities. As proof of her commitment and such. She still didn't know what she wanted to do after this semester. Maybe she will ask for a job at the Le Rouge's family business, just like Kayne. Maybe she would be good ad it, and she could spend more time with Kayne. She smiled and went on with her paper.