A scream that made him shiver through the bone woke him up, another scream made him jump up from the chair and rushed towards the one screaming. Mister Helliot already told him that Evanora suffered from nightmares, he always pokes his head around Kayne's door. To see if he needed anything, when he was little it was rather to see if he was still in bed. Instead of doing hex knows what. But Helliot has also extended this practice to Evanora. That is how Kayne and his father know about her nightmares, Kayne opened the door. Evanora was sitting straight up in her bed, tears streaming down her cheeks. She was not screaming, but she was clearly in panic. He rushed towards her bed, sat down and wrapped his arms around her. She leaned into his, sobbing as hard as she could. He didn't know what her nightmare was all about, but it was dramatic to see her like this.

"You died." She said through her tears. "We were walking through the hallways of school, and we were attacked by my sister and her friends. And she... And she... Killed you." She broke for a second time. "She just killed you, because she knew that it would hurt me." His hand went over her back, slowly, hoping that it will calm her down at least a little.

"Breath Evanora, breath. I am still here, I am still alive." He said softly. It would take four more days before they needed to go back to school, but he doubted that she would be ready to face her sister. Her sister had tormented her whole life, will she be ever ready to face that?

"Oh, young master Kayne." Helliot entered the room. "I heard her scream, and I... I am going to grab a glass of water for her." He turned around and left the room. But was quickly replaced be his parents.

"Kayne, what happened? Why did she scream like a banshee?" His mother asked, with a sharp tone in her voice. What did she apply? He knew all too well what she meant with her sharp tone. She had broken off the kiss earlier today, or was it yesterday at this point. He didn't know, and it didn't matter. He would never do such a thing, and as his mother she should have known that. Helliot wormed his way into the room and gave Evanora the glass of water. She still didn't say a word, but had stopped crying. He still could feel her shake, even though he was no longer holding her. "Kayne, answer me."

"Liliac. Evanora just had a nightmare." His father said.

"Did she? Then why is he here?" Kayne frowned, this woman sounded not at all like his mother. His father was also surprised.

"Who are you, and what are you doing in my wives body." He said calmly. The woman looked at bit smug. "Leave my wife, my family and Evanora alone. Madam Razor." Kayne looked shocked at his father, then at his mother. But his mother shook for a short moment, and almost collapsed. Almost, but his father was there to catch her. "It is safe to say that this was not a normal nightmare, no wonder she was screaming like a banshee."

"What just happened?" His mother asked, and his father explained it as softly as possible. Evanora gave the now empty glass back to Helliot, who took it back to the kitchen. "That b..."

"Dear, there are children present." His father cut her off. But Kayne wanted to say the same thing at this point. Even though his father did not like the language.

"Kayne, she knows that I have feelings for you. And she is going to use that against me." Evanora said, softly. "She is going to kill you, harm you. All to get to me." He again wrapped his arms around her.

"Let her try, I am right now not impressed." He said, that was a lie. But still he needed to comfort her, right now. She was just being attacked by her grandmother, again. His mother, who is a very powerful witch, just got her body snatched. But Madam Razor was not able to preform any magic through his mother. Which in his book was a good thing. Still he knew that his parents, together with the cook and mister Helliot were going to enforce the wards once again. And he would help them, if they let him.

"Kayne, stay with Evanora." His father said. And they didn't let him help, which was not surprising. Protecting the home was a parent's job, parents and staff in this case. And he in this case was neither. He nodded, and his parents closed the door. They probably place an extra ward on the door just in case.

"Kayne." Evanora said, she was at this point leaning against him.

"As long as I am here, I wouldn't let anybody hurt you, not here, nor at school." He said. She was already being hurt, to be fair, but he was not there to protect her in the first place. But now that he was here, her eyes started to fall shot. Sleep once again was taking over, which was good. That meant that she has calmed down enough.

"Please, do not leave me." Her voice was thick of sleep. He wanted to answer her, but she was fast a sleep before he could. He laid her down, and lay right next to her. His arm wrapped over her.

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"They need to use force to take me away from here." He said.

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"Kayne. Sweetheart." His mother's voice said softly. He didn't want to open his eyes, he really didn't. Because that would mean that he needed to leave the beautiful dream, and he was not ready to do so. "Kayne, I give you five seconds, or I grab the plant spay." Normally it would be a bucket of water, but then she would also wake up Evanora. No, he hadn't forgotten the fact that he was currently sleeping on the top of her sheets. His arm still wrapped around her warm and still sleeping body. He was also extremely aware how his body was reaction towards that fact. "Ka..."

"I am awake, mom. I am only not going to open my eyes." He whispered.

"So it is awake, good. What the hex do you think you are doing?" She asked. He could reply with one of his dry jokes, but he had a feeling that his mother wouldn't appreciate that.

"She asked me to stay with her, and she fell asleep while leaning against me. So that is what I am doing." He said, it was the truth, and his mother sighed. He couldn't see the reaction on her face, for that he needed to open his eyes.

'Get out of that bed, you smart ass." She said, the tone in her voice made it clear that she was not joking around. Not that he would doubt that for a second. He slowly opened his eyes and sighed. "I know what happened last night, and I know that she was terrified. I can not blame her for that, I can not blame you for your protective instinct. But I am not okay with the two of you sleeping in one bed." He slowly, and carefully, climbed over Evanora to get out of the bed.

"Even if it makes her sleep?" He asked.

"Even if it makes her sleep. I am however glad that she found it in her to do that. Hex, know I didn't sleep a wink after what happened. Neither did your father nor Mister Helliot. We were pretty shaken up." She said, and he couldn't blame her for that. He couldn't blame her for anything that happened last night.

"Her grandmother most be a strong witch." He said. His mother nodded.

"Stronger than I thought. I hate to admit that." She said, and she motioned for him to go out of the room. "We will talk later about this all. I want you to take a cold shower." He nodded and left the room, with great reluctance.

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After the shower, he sat at Evanora's desk, with the not so small collection of his books and homework. Busy to work away the large history paper, maths questions and some basic herbology questions. Which to his surprise was the smallest part of the amount of homework he needed to do. He was brought up surrounded by all the herbs mentioned in the book, so this all was too easy for him. Not that he was complaining, his mother has decided to leave the magic lessons for today. To give Evanora, him and herself some time to recover. His father also called off all his clients, to stay home and to pamper his mother. Who was still a bit shaken up after that body snatching ordeal. He finished his herbology homework and moved to the next one on the pile. Why did they get so much, his mother had told the school that she was going to help with their magic? As a result, Evanora, and he were being punished with all off this, he even doubted that this was all for one week. Or the four days that they would miss, they would go back to school on Monday and then all of this needed to be done. He looked at it, if everything was as easy as herbology, then all of this was not a problem. Only, it was not all that easy. He might be a natural with herbs, number and magical spells. But he failed in ancient text, which with his luck was a whole other paper he needed to write. In said text. He moaned softly, because he didn't want to wake her. Well, there was no way, he was going to complete this part of the homework on his own. Maybe his father was willing to help him with this, he opened the book and started reading. While writing down some notes, from the pieces he did understand. But then something caught his eye, it was a drawing of beaded neckless. The beads were black as the night, it looked a lot like the neckless Evanora was wearing. He picked the book up and slowly walked out of the room, down the stairs and towards his father's office. He knocked before entering.

"Dad, can you help me with something?" He asked. His father looked up from his notes.

"Sure, what is it, son?" His father replied. Kayne placed the book in front of his father. "That is Abano, one of the ancient languages." His father said. "It is one of the more recent ones, spoken in the time of the black and white war." Kayne nodded. He already knew that, he was maybe couldn't understand the language fully. But he knew about the time period when it was used. He pointed with his finger to the drawing of the neckless. "Ah the Ko za˥shto˥, better known into our modern tongeu, the spirit thread. The neckless is also a relic from that time period. It is believed that it was created by, Kalliope Vandran, right after her sister Onyx was killed. And that the family added a bead, when one of their family passes away."

"Why?" Kayne asked.

"To make it easier for the next black witch, to channel their magic. Why do you ask?" His fatehr asked.

"Because EVanora, is currently wearing the Ko za˥shto˥. And yesterday she was able to channel someone, but it was not me." Kayne explained. His father's eyebrows shot up. "Mom, and I suspect that it was one of her ansectors. Which makes now sence with that thing around her neck."

"Well if that is the case, then Evanora will only become stronger. Because like I said, every bead reprocents a dead family member. And if she is able to unlock all the beads." His father said.

"Then maybe she has a fair chance against her already fully trained sister." His mother said, while she ented the office. "Which is the whole purpose of the neckless."