Page 129 of His Blazing Witch

Cursed One...?

"What the hell are you talking about?" I mutter, shocked.

"You were born without magic, weren't you?" she hisses, squinting her eyes, full of anger. "Cursed Ones like you aren't even real witches! How the hell did you get your fire power?! No Cursed One can acquire such power by themselves! Whose witch's powers did you steal? You witch thief!"

I'm shocked beyond words.

Not only do I have no idea what she is talking about, but it makes zero sense to me.

Cursed One? No powers? It doesn't sound like me, but it does sound like... Clarissa.

I keep reliving those memories. She was desperate to prove her mother was really a witch. She knew about magic, she knew Silver City had witches. Yet, if Clarissa's mother was a witch, what happened to her? She was clearly born without any powers, from what I saw, so... how did it come to me, to Mara? There were traces of Clarissa using magic, or at least studying it. If she was powerless, what happened? Why was she born without powers despite her mother being a witch, and how did I come to have this fire?

I remember Kelsi's words. According to her, the cycle didn't make sense for Clarissa to have an Earth Witch as a mother, but... what if we had it wrong from the start? What if it didn't make sense for her to have the powers of a Fire Witch?

Once again, I get more questions than answers, and this Water Witch bitch is probably not in the mood to answer them.

"How would you know I'm cursed?!" I yell back.

She shakes her head.

"You know nothing, and you call yourself a witch! Look at those burns! Would a real Fire Witch have those?!"

From the way she glances, she isn't talking about the black markings, but about the older scars, those of the first fire that have still not disappeared. The pinkish ones I still have left, visible on my legs under my burned shorts. ...So those shouldn't be there? I'm confused. I always thought those were due to the fire, and the doctors said I was healing crazy fast, but, judging from her words, it's not enough.

"You really know nothing, do you?" she hisses.

"Liam!"

A gigantic shadow suddenly jumps over us, and three of the most impressive wolves I've ever seen stand like a wall between the witch and us. The largest one is as big as a fucking bear, and I recognize it immediately. It was the one I saw in Nora's garden, watching the children. However, it's not the most impressive... even without seeing his face, I recognize the King, his aura is as dark and scary as his wolf form. His growling even scares me enough that I unconsciously step back. And I'm only seeing him from behind...

The third wolf is cream white with golden eyes, and I'm pretty sure that's Selena. Moreover, her husband and Nora arrive next to us, running.

"Are you alright?" asks Nora, looking worried.

"How the hell did a witch get inside the barrier…?" growls Nathaniel Black.

"She isn't inside," says Liam. "Just waiting right outside and having fun sending tsunamis at our faces..."

As Selena is standing before him, Ben whimpers and retreats a bit, pulling back to go and check on Kelsi. To be honest, I feel bad for not doing the same earlier, but I can't be in both attack and defense mode, or whatever this is.

We turn our eyes to the witch, and Nora is impressive. Her blue eyes are strangely shining at the moment, and I can feel her white aura growing stronger. It's as if she is spreading her strength to all of us, and the dark clouds are about to retreat just because she's standing there. The witch notices it too, and squints her reptilian eyes.

"A Royal..." she mutters, looking very displeased by the arrival of more allies.

It's not just them. So many werewolves arrive out of nowhere on the docks, some going to help out the ones still lying on the ground, some taking defensive positions. I'm not sure this is what we need, but it does make us feel a bit stronger.

"Yes, and this wouldn't be our first time getting rid of a witch," says Nora. "So, I strongly suggest you leave my family and my city alone and go back to wherever the hell you came from."

"Your city?" repeats the witch, frowning. "This city doesn't belong to werewolves or humans!"

"Well, it does now."

"You bastards, killing your own witch and replacing it with a Cursed One?! How dare you!"

Nora frowns and turns to me.

"A Cursed One?"

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