SILVER-HAIRED
Chapter 196: The Story Of Fire And Ice {17}

Chapter 196: The Story Of Fire And Ice {17}

"I was confused, why? I only intended for Magnus to suffer because I thought he was responsible for your death, I put you on trial in hopes of making you learn not to make the same mistake again but rather I condemned my daughter’s soul into something unimaginable you ended up being his misfortune every single lifetime and over and over again I get to see it, that bond... that love?" Mother narrated.

"Your bond sewed deeper than anything I have ever seen. But now I understand, You were a Fox spirit Tethered to the Holy Library... your choice changed your fate and shattered it but even in that you believe you would be with him" she faces me. "Your love found Magnus and it was your love that bonded the both of you"

My lips quivered.

"I was confused why..." she said, facing the scene back, she sighed deeply. "Over time..." she began once again. "I noticed Magnus was becoming self-aware of who he truly was with each time he was reborn he found out he was cursed, just a lingering feeling" she states. "I felt something was wrong somewhere but I couldn’t find it out and your death was just too much of a mystery to be true and when I saw how Nicklaus love you so I knew there was no possible way he could be responsible"

I faced her, my eyes red with all the tears I have been spilling. "So on his last reborn, I installed his memories and his nature within him hoping for him to find the crack in his own curse"

"You were the reason he was able to break free of his curse and freed my misfortune," I say in realization.

"In this particular era, I installed the silver-haired maidens, spilling bits of your soul into them. That is the Mortal Realm you know of, and your story as a Silver-haired. I intended for this era to break everything, I planned it all, and I knew both of you would once again be together, I may be in control of the curse but I’m not in control of fate and the laws of the Mortal Realm"

"Nicklaus died as Cedric Logan Hartford to free me from misfortune but he also broke his curse" I stated.

"Do you think I’m cursed Mint?"

At the sound of that voice like my own, we both turned to the scene that played before us, my time in the Mortal Realm.

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"Mistress, why would you say such a thing?" Mint said with sad eyes, it was after the death of Cedric in war, after his funeral, how lost I was and confused about why fate would be so cruel and separate us.

I huffed. "It seems like it... Everything I have ever loved gets taken away from me in a snap" I said, my eyes at the window as the heavy rain poured.

"It has never stopped raining since that day... since the day that soldier came," I said in a heavy breath.

"Mistress", his tone of worry.

"Do you think the heavens feel my sadness too?" I turned to him, his sad eyes on me.

"Maybe they do," I add. "Mother said I failed this family, I failed this house"

"Mistress do not think like that, she didn’t mean what she said"

"She’s right, you know?" I said with a forced smile placing a hand on my flat belly. "I should have carried his legacy after his death but the line ended with him, I have failed"

"Mistress" Mint began going on one knee beside me. "Do not think that way... it may be hard but I believe there’s a reason for everything, a reason you must pass through this pain, you have to hold on and be strong"

"What possible reason could there be.... that I would lose my beloved and forever live in this darkness?"

"You’re not in darkness, Mistress. I understand how you feel, I know what you’re passing through"

"No, you don’t," I scoffed. He forced a smile.

"When I lost Olivia I felt like I was being drowned in a black hole repeatedly"

I instantly felt bad for what I did.

"I felt lost, unhinged, I felt like I couldn’t go on, even when revenge was gotten for her death it still wasn’t enough to fill the void. But when you told me you believed she was in a better place I found peace knowing she won’t suffer after death. Tell me, Mistress, do you feel Lord Cedric is in a better place?"

I leisurely turned back to the window, my lips quivering, my eyes all teary again. "That’s the point, Mint..." I turned to him with tears. "The reason I feel this loss and confusion, anger and the pain. I don’t feel him, I don’t feel a thing, it’s like he’s gone forever" I broke into tears.

"That’s because he exchanged his life for your happiness", we turned to the newfound voice that belonged to Beowulf, as he leisurely walked towards us, he settled his lower half to sit on the floor.

"Beowulf," I said.

"There’s something you should know," he began. "You should know the reason for Magnus’ death"

"What are you trying to say? That there is more to his death?"

"Yes," he said in a heavy tone. "The truth is Magnus was cursed by the Mother goddess upon his rebirth to the Mortal world, with a fate to live as a mortal with a limit to his powers and experience love misfortune as a punishment"

"A punishment for what?"

He paused for a bit at my question, I had a strong feeling he didn’t want to reveal something but rather he continued. "When Magnus fell for you he knew you would be his love’s misfortune, you will experience all kinds of cruelty because you hold his heart. Upon realizing that he sought a way to divert that misfortune by breaking his mortal fate with you"

My eyes went wide at his confession.