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she was Sonya, but I had to
be gentle about it. I didn’t know if finding out that his daughter was a ghost
would upset him or help him.
    “I will not seal your dark magic,” Magnus said before
I could come up with a way to tell him.
    “Why not?”
    “Because Livia has always regretted it. Why can’t you
accept who you are?”
    “I’m trying to! I don’t want to hurt people!”
    “It’s not in you to hurt someone,” he said.
    “Obviously, it is.”
    “I see why it worries you, but you should understand
that removing your dark magic is not to be taken lightly.”
    “Is it irreversible?”
    “In a way. To take away your dark magic is to take
away a part of what makes you complete. I admit I didn’t think you actually had
any darkness in you, though. If I locked it away, you would never be the same.”
    “Well, it’s obviously not fatal, because my aunt is
fine. Besides, she locked me, Merlin, and Bralyn up so we couldn’t go after
you, so I know she’s not completely good.”
    Magnus sighed. “I thought you figured it out a long
time ago. Think about this; your aunt is a very powerful person. How did you
get out of the room she locked you in?”
    I didn’t see where he was going with this. “I picked
the lock.”
    “Did you honestly think you could have escaped if she
didn’t want you to? Did you really think she forgot to take away your things?”
    I shrugged. “I thought she was underestimating me
because I was so bad at being a sorcerer.”
    “Ayden, she wanted you to come to me. That was
why she made sure your staff would lead you to me.”
    “Then why did she lock me up?!”
    “Your seer friend, Dessa, went to Livia and told her
what would happen. Livia knew she had to interfere in order for you to learn to
accept your light magic.”
    That was not what I expected him to say at all, and
it made me question how much of my life Dessa manipulated. Was it just Livia ? Did Dessa somehow cause me to leave my home ? How was I supposed to know?
Maybe Merlin had a reason for distrusting seers. She was my friend, but I
didn’t like being manipulated, especially since I trusted her to tell me what I
needed to know.
    Then again, she told Merlin I would die on the day
his curse was broken. Was she lying ? Was she misleading him ? Why
didn’t she explain ?
    “Ayden?” Magnus asked when I didn’t say anything for
a while.
    “I did accept my light magic. Now I’m trying to be a
wizard so I won’t accidentally hurt anyone.”
    “I will not do it.”
    “Fine.” I shoved my plate away and stood. “Then I
will be in my room until you change your mind!” I stomped out of the room,
knowing full well he would be too shocked to follow me. Outbursts of emotion
were a sign of weakness for sorcerers, and my brothers would have preyed on me
for it. Magnus, on the other hand, would give me privacy to cool down.
    I went to my room and packed as little as I could get
away with, which included one change of clothes, some food, a knife, some rope,
my flame-proof dragon-hide gloves, a pair of snapping rocks, my wand, my staff,
and my Dracre robe. I snuck down the stairs and towards one of the back doors,
but sinister whispers stopped me in my tracks.
    There was absolutely no reason for me to make the
detour to the magic room, yet I found myself doing it anyway. Inside, the syrus
was almost vibrating with the force of the magic inside it. The crystal on my
staff glowed, almost as if threatening the box to behave. When the whispers
suddenly became much louder, I let go of my staff to cover my ears. “Shut up!
I’m not letting you out!”
    My staff did not fall. Instead, I felt magic being
pulled from me into my staff right before a red burst of magic shot from the
crystal into the chest. The syrus vanished. I glared at my staff. “What did you
do to it?”
    As if feigning innocence, it fell to the ground. I
rolled my eyes, picked it up, and shut the door on the way out. Sneaking out of
the castle was almost too