“The spell does not kill. And I’d been working on it long before that incident, it never worked before that night.” No, her spell as powerful as it was to be able to turn a fully grown dragon into stone wasn’t made with the intent to kill. Her spite however came in her next spell, Expulso to shatter the stone dragon. “Exactly, I’d never given you a reason because there wasn’t one. Choosing to be private, choosing to keep to myself, and not letting anyone get close to me does not make me secretive!” She said throwing her hands up in frustration. “An eleven year old girl away from home, without her parents, new to magic, experiencing high levels of stress, I’m sure even you can put that together.”
“Go ahead and hide behind your logic. I see right through it, bloody hypocrite. Why bother casting if you expected nothing to come of it? You must have known somehow that you wanted this inhumane revenge!” Cypress clung to the memory of Csenge, a beautiful specimen he’d met once as an adolescent dragon, an innocent victim just like Aiden. Each time he saw Vérène now, he envisioned the creature’s glittering eyes turning painfully to rock. Cypress may not have witnessed the crime, but the thought of it had always haunted him - and now it walked the halls, surrounded itself with students - his students. He remained very still as she spoke, thoughts numbed in self-defense against the painful memories, barely listening. “Good, I’m glad you haven’t started shouting at the children to tears. Like I said, I’ll keep my trap shut, so long as you’re still on their side,” he finished icily.
Vérène looked at him, silent as different thoughts ran through her mind. A few days ago it had occurred to her that Cypress knew things, she could ask him things about Aiden. He was his closest friend and before she had always wanted to meet him. It was funny how fate played out. "There's no point in trying to talk to you or convince you of anything. You could never understand my position. It'd be better if we simply no speak to one another anymore."












