.Eyes Of Void.

-50-

"Audrey." I had opened the shutters and jumped up to my feet in fear as I heard a knock, having been sitting on the inner window sill reading before she scared me, popping up out of nowhere.

"Good lords!" I had yelled at her, almost pouting. "Mystery I was reading!"

"I did tell you I'd pass by later and to expect me."

"True, so what is it?" I closed the book and set it on my bed before walking back to her, her elbows up on the sill and her head held in her hands.

"I translated the book and made as much sense of the mystery letters as I could, most is about the banned spells no one should use, a small resume of what they do without the spell to cast it being listed."

"And? Anything else?"

"Well yeah that's why I am here mostly... Void, it figures between these spells to never use and it is actually called void so we assumed right."

"Oh do tell." I sat back up on my side of the window sill, making her tilt her head to keep looking at me.

"Well from what I got it was once not so rare, a few humans had a different version of it which at the start was what let them absorb the wild magic in their body to cast the wild spells and build a stock pile of magic, it was called absorption at the time not void. Reading more it suddenly talked of the legend of the first elemental, it explains even if he was gifted elemental magic by the gods he still had that basic absorption ability and too ensure humanity lived he pushed it to the extreme until the magic collapsed into itself creating a point of magic so dense all other magic around him was sucked into it as if it was an endless void, his body couldn't take it as the magic sprouted leaves and bark over his skin, he died to weaken wild magic and give us humans a chance but not before that void solidified itself as a potential obtainable form of magic so like the three gods three forces exists, wild magic, elemental magic and void."

"Is there anything written about how it is too be harvested?"

"There actually is, it was created in a big bout of emotions as legends say and you were really scared I'd die when you first use it, you need to detach it from your emotions of it might get out of hand." Yes but wasn't I scared enough to use it in the forest? what was different then?

Was it that then I was still level headed? I was panicking in the forest.

"How?" I urged her to say more.

"There was little about that but since all is filled with magic naturally, anything alive, you need to envision the magic draining out of it, not to cast in a spell but just to fade away."

"Must be harder done than said right?"

"It sure is."

"How will we ever tame this void." I said even if it was me that needed to learn.

"Well I might have an idea." She sat up on the window sill but facing me. "Belladonna and I work with plants as you know, the first day we met I declared having prepared one of the most potent poisons with her, well those plants are kept as seeds and secured in a room only head mages can go into so she and I since she does train me as one."

"What is that got to do with anything?"

"This." She held out what looked like a wilting flower but the petals looked healthy at the same time, she held it between her fingers.

"What does it-." I grabbed it from her "Do..." I instantly felt sooo tired I barely caught my head when it tilted forwards, dropping my shoulder. "What is this? I feel... Euh."

"Tired and drained." She hummed. "It is called Wither Away, when I read of the void it reminded me of this flower, a natural magic drainer, it absorbs magic to grow so it could live set on your nightstand as magic is all around, if you hold it, it will suck away your magic to fuel its survival."

"But how?" I fought to lift my head and sit up normally, this is amazing, I don't even have the strength to let it go.

"It comes from a dry place and it adapted to feed of magic like other plants do with water."

"Wow."

"Now use your void to take the magic back."

"But I can't, it took all my strength." I watched this little flower, this world is so amazing and full of mystery.

"Then drop it."

"I can't." I couldn't and wouldn't, it can help me so I need to try. "I need to try but this is impossible what you ask of me Mystery."

She stepped inside my room and took the flower from me, not seeming affected and burnt it to ashes she threw out the window.

"It is possible, once you overpower the flower's own magic and take back what it stole, for one you will know as you don't feel tired but it will also be how to start with the void since that too is also taking magic in you just with the added step that it will disappear."

"So if I beat this flower..."

"You'll have a grasp on what you gotta do for the void so it will be easier, just try to not get angry... I got so pissed off when Belladonna started my training with this flower that all the plants bloomed black for several days as we didn't know how to reverse the effects of it."

"That was you?" I exclaimed and started laughing, remembering how my mother's face had looked and just how confused she was that her garden turned all black for two weeks before turning back to normal.

"Don't mock me and yes I did that."

"And that is another secret."

"You could say that, we told no one of this."

"Well give me another flower and lets start shall we?"

"We shall."