At a certain room was Connor and Hazel, the room was filled with so many potions in different flasks and they were arranged according their numbers as it looked like he had numbered them.
She looked around the secret room she was in, surely this room was only known to Connor. She noticed some other weird stuff in it like some bloody knives and some materials she guessed he used for his spells. She was still scanning the room when Connor called to get her attention
"We came here to ask you question, you could explore some other time"
"Does the nuns and people working working here know about this room" she couldn't help but ask
"Obviously not, I actually found this room by coincidence. I guessed nobody knew about it and I used it for this"
"Wow, that's why its located underground"
"Hmmn"
"Okay can we start with the questions then"
"Right away cause we all know, Lord Xavier's patience is not something to test"
"Yeah"
"Okay, to you being a witch, does it give you any thought"
"It did at the beginning, after my mum told me she was a witch and I was one also, but with the days going, I slowly got less conscious of it, again was when I was told I turned to a white witch, it was shocking to my mum as she tried guessing what might has caused such. She didn't tell any other witches about it knowing that dark and white witches don't get along and luckily I never met any"
"Hmmn... I was never a dark witch, so actually this seems surprising to me also but Xavier has explained it to me"
"Did you know you were a witch on little?"
"Yep, I did. My both parents were white witches, I didn't know how to use spells and other abilities as a white witch cause I was still young. My parents were killed when I was nine, it was just a few witches that remained at that time and I had to learn what I could to defend myself, unfortunately, my aunt who was teaching me was also killed and that was when I met Xavier, he kept me and I found myself in the church as the priest and since then, I've been making research by myself on potions and spells"
"So you're actually the only white witch in the four lands… well, excluding me?"
"I haven't checked if there were others but I guess everyone was killed"
"But how have you been able to hide all this while, I'm sure the dark witches has come to the church on many occasions"
"Spells… I've been using spells all this while but I think for your case, you also have the ability to purify things around you"
"How's that"
"I normally would sense when a white or dark witch is near but I haven't sense yours since you came,so I concluded that"
"So you mean, nobody can sense I'm a white witch?"
"I couldn't"
"Is that another ability of a white witch?"
"No, I think it's because you're special"
"Is there any other ability related to being special?"
"I don't know but you'll find out yourself"
"There was a time I was forced to inhale a liquid and it had an effect on me, if I'm able to purify things around me, why then didn't I do it at that time?"
"I would say you weren't aware and liquids needs concentration to be able to purify but things that has to do with air, doesn't, your body does iron its own"
"So I'll need to concentrate when dealing with liquids?"
"Yes"
"Will I be starting tomorrow?"
"Sure, unless you don't want to"
"I would happily start"
"But for today…" Connor said as he went to the shelves to search through the rows and picked a book "…I would want you to memorize some of the spells in this book. Its just some simple spells, mostly healing spells" he continued stretching the book towards Hazel.
She collected it and they both left back to where Xavier was, they met him him as they had left him
"Done?" Xavier asked as he caught sight of them
"Yep, done" Hazel said smiling
"She'll be coming tomorrow then" Xavier said facing Connor this time
"Hmmn"
"We'll be going"
"Uhmm, Hazel should wait up at the open seats in the church, I need to speak to you" Connor whispered to Xavier while Hazel was looking elsewhere.
Xavier then turned and signalled her to wait outside, Hazel understood and left the both men alone
"So what's important that you wanted to say" Xavier asked
"I just found out a special ability the girl has"
"What's it?"
"She has the ability to purify things around her"
"That's good?"
"It is but its also bad"
"Why and how?"
"The dark witches need you to open the portal to the dark magic and to do that, they need her but initially, they needed a white witch for that purpose but since they believe all the white witches are dead, they had to use you"
"I know all this and I don't get why you are telling me"
"Hazel has the ability to purify things around her …"
"So?"
"The dark witches initially needed a white witch with that ability"
"—"
"Hazel will be able to replace you as the sacrificial lamb"
Xavier stayed quiet for sometime, so Hazel isn't just special in the sense that she can kill him but also replace him in the witches list
"How do you know all this" he asked after sometime
"I read it in one of the spell books of the witches, they either need someone like her or someone like you"
"But they don't know that someone like her exist right?"
"They don't but I don't know for how long"
"And they can't sense her as a witch since you said she can purify things around her including her scent"
"I said so but you'll also need to guard her as there are other ways to identify a white witch"
"What ways"
"Only a dark witch can answer that"
"A dark witch" Xavier murmured
"Yes"
"I'll see to that"
"Just make sure she's out of sight to the dark witches when she's with you and I'll do the same when she's here"
"Hmmn"
At the carriage was Hazel waiting, she was told to wait in the church but the stares were so much as people whispered what they thought was her relationship with the Lord. She lollop to the carriage to wait there instead and would occasionally look towards the entrance of the church to see if Xavier was coming.
Finally, Xavier came out fuming with anger with Connor besides him, he didn't come closer to the carriage but stayed there seeming to search for something or someone. Hazel decided to check on him and see what he was after. She came down and went closer to them, Connor was the first to see her and he tapped Xavier, the moment he saw her, the anger in him melted away and his eyes softened, he rushed to hold her and hugged her, Hazel who was confused just reciprocated the hug.
"You're suffocating me" she whispered and he released her from his tight hug, he stared at her for sometime before talking
"You got me worried" he said and Hazel rose her brow in question "I told you to wait in the church"
It was the she understood why he was like that. Xavier was worried when he came out after speaking with Connor to find Hazel not inside the church, he searched the first time and didn't see her, also for the second time
'Has the witches gotten hold of her in a short time' it was his thoughts at that moment
"I'm sorry, I wasn't comfortable with the stares from people, I didn't mean to get you worried" she said apologetically and sincerely
"Stares from where?" Xavier asked confused
"Didn't you notice the stares when we stepped into the church?"
"No, I didn't"
'So you weren't faking the expressionless face then' she thought
"People were staring at us, me especially"
"You don't have to worry about them, it doesn't matter what they think. You're my woman not my mistress" he said and Hazel smiled "but I will punish you for making me worried"
"Not another fever"
"No, this time a punishment you would like" he gave a wicked grin before dragging her back to the carriage and headed to the mansion.