Welcome to Tuesday Travel. Every
Tuesday, I will be presenting an excerpt of Witch Raising: The Book of
Fire, the book in which Brownie, the heroine of
Demon Soul, is undertaking an initiatory journey.
About Witch Raising: The Book of Fire
Witch Raising is a new series with Brownie, the heroine of
Demon Soul as the main character. This series is part of the House at the Crossing Series and follows
Demon Soul and
Demon and Fairy
but instead of being centered on the adventure of Sahel and his demon
friends, it follows Brownie as she goes from being a normal girl to a
bad ass witch. She has been practicing magick for a while now, saving
people from difficult situations but the people at the house, including
Sahel aren't happy with her new calling. Feeling that she doesn't have a
choice and has to keep learning witchcraft, Brownie leaves to meet
other witches.
The excerpt, we start where we left off last week
The train stopped at
Fireden and she hadn't yet made her mind about staying a bit to look
around or just hopping in the next train. She picked up her bag and
Viorel's food. The train station was made of wood, all painted in red
and yellow as if they had been trying to represent fire. There were
two large lion on each side of the door leading from the dock's gate
to the inside. Brownie bet that this would attract tourist, it was
rather impressive. It was attracting her in a way, she had never seen
anything like it before.
She walked passed the
lions. The station was so crowded that she instinctively clung at
her bags a bit tighter. She hadn't been expected so many people,
Fireden was a rather small place a woman in her fifties was
distributing pamphlet on the opposite side. Brownie took one. It was
colorful with fire designs all around.
It was advertising the
beginning of the autumn fire lion festival starting the next day.
That had a pull to it that Brownie couldn't resist, it seemed like
too much for being a coincidence, the fast that she had left today,
picked this train out of the other possibility and arrived now to
this place, with all this people walking toward the exit of the
station at the same time as her, that was rather close to synchronicity to be just a coincidence and the fact that it was
Fireden too and that she had just left her fire demon boyfriend. If
it wasn't magic trying to talk to her she didn't know what it was.
She looked back at the two lion guarding the gate and took a deep
breath asking what she should do. She didn't dare to close her eyes
to go deeper as people around were bumping into each other.
"Stay and learn,"
came to her mind, "Learn about the fire and it's transformative
power. The fire melt the metal, the fire build earth and glass."
That was an order from
the goddess of sort. She had no other choice than to obey and she
felt rather happy about it. The Autumn Fire Lion festival sounded
like a lot of fun.
The street in front of
the station was packet with taxis and buses stopped, people with
suitcases who had known to come here for a festival she didn't even
know existed before blindly being guided to it by the forces of the
universe. Maybe she had seen it on TV before but she couldn't really
be sure. She hadn't watched TV for so long she wasn't even sure if it
had ever been on it.
The lion representation
looked funny though, very red with a colorful crown of... something,
flowers or fruit or jewel. She wasn't sure.
What had the goddess
whispered to her? The fire melt the metal, the fire build earth and
glass."
She understands the
melting par but building earth and glass she wasn't sure. Wasn't
Earth always powerful, always prevalent because it stayed put no
matter what element it faced. The planet was always there. Could
Earth really be build by fire other than a star explosition and
gravity. She didn't quite get the meaning, so that's what she had to
learn.
She walked around for a
bit, looking for a hostel or an inn or something. As it was the
festival they were mostly fully booked and she needed a cheap one if
she wanted to get money to last her long enough. She wasn't really
sure what to do so she took off her aquamarine medallion and used it
as a pendulum. She had never done it before. She had no real idea
what she was doing but she still followed her instinct. If she was on
this journey to fix her magic, she might as well dive into it and see
where to start into fixing it. So pendulum it was. The stone didn't
move though, she pushed and pushed her intention into it but there
was no need. She wasn't Saphira, she couldn't deal with it.
Someone laughed on her
left.
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