Chapter Fourteen: The Appeal
This time the voices didn't come as scary whispers.
It came like a distant moan... sad.
Yara sat in her room, turned off the lights, and lit a candle as her grandfather did.
She put her hand on her heart.
"I'm ready to hear."
Suddenly, the room is no longer dark...
It was filled with a dim light, like a soft fog.
Faces appeared.
It wasn't scary.
She was tired.
Child.
Woman.
Old man.
Human souls... they were not given the right to say goodbye.
A voice from them said, clear this time:
"We didn't rebel... we were a victim."
Her heart trembled.
"The magician used us. He took our souls in rituals. We were not allowed to rest."
Tears began to fall from her eyes without feeling.
"Our bodies were not buried properly. You didn't mention our names. Our souls are stuck."
She raised her head with difficulty.
"I... I'm afraid of failing."
A light light advanced towards her.
A child's voice said:
"We don't need a hero... we need someone to hear us."
I was silent for a moment.
Then I whispered:
"I promise you... I will free you. I will take your right."
At that moment, she was no longer afraid.
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Chapter 15: Training Between Two Worlds
Spirits said to Liara:
"The magician is powerful because he steals energy.
You're strong because you bring it back."
They started teaching her.
It wasn't physical training...
But consciously.
✨ How do you see energy threads among humans?
✨ How do you feel a lie when it is said.
✨ How to make a light shield that protects from control.
✨ How to separate a constrained soul from its tie without hurting it.
In one of the exercises, I discovered something important.
The magician does not control the minds directly...
Rather, it sows a deep fear, and amplifies it until it swallows the will.
For this king seems to be a thie of will.
This is why the three princes are submissive.
But the fourth prince...
He was close to Yara.
His heart was not filled with fear.
So the magician couldn't touch it.
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Chapter 16: The Promise of Light
In the morning, friends gathered.
Yara looked at them.
She is no longer the girl who is afraid of the shadows.
She said firmly:
"Souls are not a curse. They are victims.
And the magician uses our fear to strengthen."
Kamal looked at her with silent admiration.
Adam said calmly:
"Then we will face him."
Yara smiled a small smile.
"No... we won't face him with anger.
We'll really confront him."
At that moment, in a distant place inside the palace,
The magician felt something.
Something is changing.
Energy he couldn't control.
He opened his crazy eyes and whispered:
"I finally... appeared."
But this time...
He wasn't the only one planning.