The Devil's Cursed Witch
The tale of a man who brings death and a girl who denies it. ---- On the haunted mountain in the kingdom, they say there lived a witch. She was born a princess. But even before her birth, the priest declared her to be cursed and demanded her death. They poisoned the mother to kill the baby before she gave birth, but the baby was born out of the dead mother—a cursed child. Again and again, they tried to kill the baby but she miraculously survived every single attempt. Giving up, they abandoned her on the haunted mountain to die but she still survived on that barren land— A witch ‘Why won’t she die?’ Years later, the people finally had enough of the witch and decided to burn the mountain. But the Devil arrived to her rescue and took her with him from that burning place, because dying was not her destiny even then. Draven Amaris. The Black Dragon, who ruled over supernatural beings, the Devil who no one wished to cross a path with. He hated humans but this certain human girl would pull him towards her whenever she was in danger. ‘Is she really a human?’ He took the human with him and named this mysteriously tenacious girl “Ember”, a piece of glowing coal in a dying fire. A soul tainted with vengeance and the darkness of hell, would rise from the ashes and fulfil her revenge. ------ This is the second book from the series of The Devils and Witches. 1st book - Witch's daughter and the Devil's son. 3rd book- The Devil's Betrothed. All books are connected to each other but you can read them as stand-alone.
Two Decades Back In Valor
As the knight left, the King of Valor remained silently seated on his chair behind his desk.
After some time, he opened one of the drawers on the desk and pulled out a long thin wooden box that was the size of a palm. He opened the box and pulled a small paper scroll out of it. One could see that the paper seemed to be quite old, its colour close to yellow and its borders a little worn out.
Gregor looked at the content of the scroll and it was a birth chart of a person. It had a big circle drawn in the middle with various lines drawn along it, dividing it into different sections. The astrological signs of the stars were drawn along various shapes and patterns.
At the top, there was a blank space where the name of the person whose birth chart it was should be placed, but it had no name written on it. Gregor caressed that blank space as his mind was filled with images and voices from that particular incident from the past.