Thirty-Nine

I NEVER ASKED HER TO SHOW ME, BECAUSE I didn't want to press her on it. So, no. I haven't seen it. But I felt it multiple times," he did? "As I'm aware of it, it became impossible for me not to feel it even if softly coming from her."

Now, I didn't know about that. "Don't come closer while I'm at it, okay? And don't touch the dark fog. If you do, it won't be good to your soul."

They all seemed startled, and the devil turned to me, "What do you mean? How do you know it hurt the soul, babe? Not even the history books about your mother's family back in the north talk about that," they don't?

"As I have no connection with them, I didn't knew that. However, I learned that when I was training by myself back in the dark woods in the County, ad I ended up killing quite a bunch of animals accidentally. It scared the shit out of me, because I wasn't really aware of what this power was yet. So, when I went to check the animals, they were all dead, their skin turned grey, they seemed sickly slim, and their souls were clearly sucked out of their bodies. Maybe it's because they were weak animals, but I'm not really interested to see what this can cause to a human body, alright?! At least not by testing on you," my family is a possibility though.

"Disgusting," the devil exclaimed making me laugh.

And I'm not even going to get started on the dismay in the Prince and Marie's faces. "Indeed, it was. So, let's keep some distance. 10 steps is good enough. Oh, and if I do something you might think it's weird, don't be surprised. I had to create my own ways to control my magic, so it might be peculiar to watch. Especially because I usually only do this when I'm all alone." They said nothing.

Taking another deep breath, I closed my eyes, feeling the cold feeling spreading through my veins, as the peculiar smell of my magic filled my nostrils. As I exhaled, I opened my eyes, and the black-pitch fog erupted from all over my body, spreading around me, but I control it not to spread in the room and hurt the people with me in here. Then I began humming Dandelions by Ruth B. but just the rhythm, without the lyrics, or it might break my focus.

I tried other songs when I was training myself, but this is the only one that helps me calm down my nerves when using the shadow magic, and be able to properly control it as I want.

Humming the song, I guided it around the room and made it reach the shadow of a small coffee table near the piano, then I grabbed the shadow and made it come to me, bringing the small table violently to where I was. "Can I break it?" I asked the devil, with a smile and he only nodded, still dumbfounded. "Alright," I closed my fist and smashed the shadow of the table, making the object implode itself, and it's broken pieces turned into black dust instantly, since it didn't had it's shadow anymore.

Still humming, I licked my lips feeling satisfaction spread inside of me. Then I closed my eyes again, inhaled and made the shadows comeback inside of me, and just like that the fog disappeared and I felt that familiar taste of blood in my mouth again. It doesn't bother me anymore, it's actually pleasant.

Using shadow magic takes quite a lot of a person; that's what all the books about this rare and nearly gone magic says. However, probably because I inherited the thunder magic from my dad, but it never makes me tired, I'm always way more energetic after I use it then before. But my blood rushes too fast in my veins and that's why I taste blood afterwards.

When I opened my eyes again, I took another deep breath and sat on his side again, as if I had done nothing. "Sorry about the table, babe."

"Your eyes turned gold. Your hair turned blood-red. Your skin turned paler than usual. That power… God's above, Hope, what was that? It made me feel goosebumps. Even though it didn't come closer to us, I was invaded by a feeling of sudden death, darling. It was terrifying to say the least. And you were floating!"

I raised my eyebrows, "My hair and eyes turn colors? I never knew that, since I always used it in the dark woods, so no one saw it to tell me how I looked."

Lady Marie gasped, "Is that what you are worried about?" She seemed paler than usual.

"Well, the floating part isn't the shadow magic, is just that I ways use my telekinesis to take me a feet up in the air when using it, because it makes it easy to control the magic!"

"You don't like drained. Shouldn't you faint or something after using it?" The Prince asked, as dumbfounded as his soon-to-be-wife.

Holding my hand higher, I blinked slowly and my small thunders danced in my hand, "Thanks to my shitty father, I have thunder magic like him and most of the Bissonnettes before me. Which makes it easy for me to be always energetic, and not get drained easily. So, even though the shadow magic should take a lot of it's user, that doesn't really apply to me because of this," I looked at my hands and smiled, and blinked slowly again and it faded. "It's the only thing I'm thankful for, regarding my dad."

The devil gasped, "Well, that explains why you have so much energy," he mumbled and I felt my face getting hot again.

"Father-in-law only mentioned the shadow magic," Lady Marie mumbled staring at me in pure shock. "Who could have thought you are actually a three type-mage! For fuck's sake, you know how crazy that is, Lady Hope? Why the fuck did you hid that?" Oh, wow, she has quite the dirty tongue when she's in a state of shock, doesn't she?!

I tilted my head, "I thought you knew about that yet, it seems like I was wrong. And regarding your question, Lady Marie, it's simple. I wanted a low profile life, and I knew that wouldn't be possible if people knew about my magic, so I hid it. I hid it mainly from my family, because I didn't want them to use me, but I also didn't want any powerful people to get a word about it," I gulped and side looked the man that was holding my hand again. "Too late now, since I never considered that there would be so many spies in the County."

Prince Behnam scoffed incredulously, "You really are different, Lady Hope Bissonnette. Anyone else in your position would have told the world about it, knowing all the power they can get from it."

Lady Marie agreed with him, "You also would have gained a golden-spoon treatment, Lady Hope. People would have never looked down on you like that. Especially that family of yours. And you also would have been able to get the best matches on the Kingdom. You would be able to get married to a Duke, or even one of the sons of the King, since all of them values such a power like yours, way too much."

The devil beside me gasped and when she noticed what she said, she covered her hands. Even the Prince was looking at her in shock. But I giggled, "Didn't the Duke told you? I hate everyone outside the south, and I also don't like any of the Dukedoms." And when their gazes went to my fiancée, I rolled my eyes, "He's an exception," I turned to him, "He's different. Well, it's different now."

"You hate me?" The Prince gasped.

"No. Oh God, I expressed myself badly. What I mean is, all the spies got that image of me. But I just never wanted to get close to anyone of you, to anyone in power. Mainly because I was scared of you learning about my power in a glance. As I said before, I wanted a low profile life, with someone who wasn't a Prince, or anything like that. I didn't crave for any of that, I just wanted a quiet life, which would be impossible if people were to know my secret… So, yes, it's pretty much impossible now," I giggled anxiously.

"Are you serious?" Lady Marie seemed to find hard to believe that. "For real? You let your family torture you and treat you like that, when you could have used your power against them long ago? I don't get it."