She raised her head, torn from sleep. The sun was already high in the sky sending its golden rays through the shattered glass windows, penetrating the chamber and causing her to curse so early in the morning. Aurora shaded her eyes with a hand but it wasn't enough. The tentacles of the sun reached her skin and caused a burning sensation. Her legs kicked the blanket away and her hand pulled the pillow and tossed it at the window. It was unnecessary but she felt it was something she needed to do.
The events of the previous day and the day before the previous day came back to her. She expected the spell to not take a whole day. At least, she got back on the way he spoke to her. She thought she was dealing with some kind of brat who was looking for his mum to complain about his bad luck and misfortune in life.
She thought she wasn't his master. It was the future her who did it so the future Aurora would take responsibility. It wasn't time for her to take responsibility for something she didn't do yet. There was a hope in her heart Stephan would give up on the idea of using her as a teacher. She wasn't interested one bit in teaching him anything. She came for gold and she would leave with gold.
She pulled a parchment from under the bed and spread it on the bed while lying on her stomach. She opened a small portal to the tavern kitchen and pulled some cookies from the shelves. They paid a lot of money for the second day so it wasn't theft. She pulled some beef jerkies, salt biscuits, fried sausages and plates where to put them.
The cooker in the kitchen watched as his snacks disappeared again, one by one. He took the knife and chased the hand that flew everywhere picking the food from all over the space. Aurora just knew the pattern and dodged all the knife swings. The man slammed his buttocks on the ground feeling the need to give up on chasing that stupid hand monster that looked like a human belonging. He knew he would be denied again and blamed for the missing the food.
"Okay, so let's see where I was yesterday. Bla bla bla…" she inspected the words written on the parchment again and the plan she had in mind.
There was a curse she needed to deal with. Apparently, she was referred by a man who claimed he knew her. She searched her memories looking for the man but she knew too many that it wasn't a certainty she would find the one who did it. She prayed secretly for his short life because he made her work for gold. If she wasn't referred, she would simply go to some forest and sleep under the stars and eat berries until she got sick of them. But she was already sick of them.
The castle existed around Revampirina as the landlord was the previous Lord put to keep Revampirina safe. However, he was caught in a curse that didn't allow him to leave a single step outside of his castle. He has been living there without knowing what the outside world was. If it wasn't for a merchant who received the help of the Lord, no one would have known what truly happened inside.
It was said that the Lord was turning insane because of the curse. His wife turned strange and all the servants in the castle turned almost dead. It needed a rhyming poem to understand how to break that curse.
"You did it on purpose," a familiar annoying voice burst through the door pushing it open. It made all furniture feel exposed. "You turned me into a dead fish for a whole day, my head is still throbbing from the excessive sleep. I don't sleep a lot. Sleeping a lot is break my routine and habit."
Aurora turned on her back hiding all the parchments and throwing the plates. The clay shattered reaching his feet. He walked by it stepping on each clay breaking it further. Aurora sighed.
"Seriously, I wished you would be trapped more but it seems wishes are only wishes because they don't come true," she sat down on the edge of the bed, with a chin resting over her knuckles. "To what pleasure do I owe you so that you can come and haunt me with your dark stare?"
"Well, I need compensation for what you caused me. You made me waste a whole day in rubbish talk."
"At least, you know you were speaking rubbish. I am happy you are confessing. Don't tell me this is your conclusion from the experiment? If it is then you are the most useless disciple I would ever have. Are you lying about being a disciple? It seems you are. I cannot accept a stupid boy. It takes guts to disturb me."
"You were experimenting on me."
"You know I never get the chance to try my experiments. Someone made me swear to not go to people who didn't reach out to me first and try my theories on them. You know I got a lot of theories," she approached him and bent slightly closer to his face. Her face was so serious and her frowning eyebrows suggested she was about to say something important. "I cannot believe you are shorter than me… Three centimetres. You are shorter of three centimetres."
"Spare me your jokes. Soprana already warned me about you without realizing it. Since I need compensation for your foul play, you will have to pay me by helping me with the magic. I am sure you know of a skill that doesn't need mana or it needs stored mana."
Aurora picked a black mantle from the closet and wrapped herself in it. Stephan was following her with his eyes looking out for his compensation reward.
"So you want me to train you or look for something that can store mana so you can act like the little funny magician you are."
"I expect more than a game of words from my master."
"I refuse to take responsibility since it's the future myself who took you in."
"But you said you accepted things as they are. Okay, let's take it another way! Since you like to experiment on people, experiment on me on the condition you wouldn't kill me. In exchange, teach me something useful."