Witch's Cursed Circle Complete Collection by Evelyn Cooper

Author:Evelyn Cooper [Cooper, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The Curse of the Circle

A cool breeze blows in through the open window. The clear blue sky slowly gives way to a rhapsody of the sunset. Orange and yellow streaks the sky in a dramatic exposition, mirroring the drama unfolding within me as I lay here, trying to wrap my mind around the things I’m hearing. None of it makes sense. None of it seems true. Yet somehow, I know inside me that it all is. “What you just told us means the ritual is working,” Bran explains slowly as though speaking to a toddler. I would be offended if I didn’t appreciate the pace. He really did need to go slowly.

“What ritual?”

“The Undoing Ritual,” the lady on the other side of my bed says sweetly, though with less caution than Bran. I wasn’t sure what to do with that.

The undoing ritual… okay. If this was supposed to be an explanation, she was failing.

“It is the ritual we used to undo the spell that was cast upon you. You probably know by now, the Guardian witch was erasing your memories every year and replacing them with another set of fake ones,” her thin brows crease as she keeps her eyes fixed on mine, studying my reactions.

“They’ve been cruel to you and your mind. Your real memories have been repressed deep within you, which is the only thing they can do to your brain since it’s so powerful.”

“Powerful? Me? My brain? I… I don’t know what you mean.”

“You have the most powerful photographic memory at this time and ours. An erasure spell on any other person, on any other creature, on any other witch, would do exactly that. It would erase the memories and their pathways completely.”

“But not me?” I ask, still in complete surprise.

“Not you,” Bran smiles, and there’s a look of pride in his eyes.

“They cannot erase your memories. They can only repress them. They’ve had to resort to pushing them down into the depths of your mind where you can’t easily access them.” She smiles, though I can see the annoyance lingering in her face. She doesn’t like this coven at all, and something about that makes me like her even more.

“They made up things that would fill the space left by your real memories.”

I suddenly feel very naked. My hands reach for my head automatically. It’s like I can feel the way they pushed down my memories, the way they scooped the fake ones out and poured in another year’s worth of new artificial memories.

Bran puts his hand on my head and gently and pats my hair like I’m a kid. He keeps getting away with these otherwise offensive actions

because, in this moment, this kind of reassurance is exactly what I need. The growing anxiety in me dies down with each pat.

“Do you remember what I said you are?” Bran asks, and I look up at him and nod. Even if I didn’t remember, the little boy from my dream had reminded me just a few minutes ago.

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